existential

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“It is existential for us,” said May Habib, CEO and co-founder of enterprise AI startup Writer, about driving more internal AI usage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

No, the opposition toward the candidate is viciously intense, shockingly manifold, and wide-ranging to the point of sounding almost existential.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

That makes it less vulnerable to disruption than, say, an enterprise software provider facing an existential threat from tools such as Anthropic’s Claude.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

It’s an added shading, an honest commentary, that feels right, as if it were there all along in the DNA of this well-traveled tale of existential concern, just waiting to be uncovered.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

As they watched the documentary about the 32,000-year-old cave paintings in France’s Chauvet cave, interwoven with Herzog’s heavily accented existential musings, Travis couldn’t help but wonder what his father would say if he were there.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner