existence
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Prosecutors alleged potentially ruinous liability, and a set of product rules got negotiated into existence as the price of making the case go away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I put dots all over my body and make all the surroundings dot patterns. By creating the same thing over and over, my own existence is buried in the art."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“There’s a person who was fundamental to the very existence of this group,” he adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
His existence would account for the reference on the tablet and could also explain the identity of a royal figure shown in a statue discovered at Aššur.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Sold as the ultimate work-life balance, the firm's brain microchip procedure splits a person's consciousness and memory into dual existences.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
They live two separate existences, with one being a lonely, singular experience of grief.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2024
We have given the keys to our once-private analog existences over to the wealthiest companies in human history.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2024
Locals and tourists often lead separate but parallel existences, more or less ignoring one another’s presence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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