existential
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While U.S. car companies view Chinese competition as an existential threat, American consumers are increasingly interested in buying these affordable and cutting-edge Chinese cars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
“I was having a baby — I didn’t know what existential meant,” she remarks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
Flush with cash, the firms are also wooing the general public, insisting that artificial intelligence will be a force for good -- and not a destroyer of jobs or an existential threat for humanity.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
They were impressed by Humeau's cinematic exhibition and its "engagement with ecological and existential themes through inventive forms, speculative scenarios and dynamic shifts in scale".
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?...
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing existential
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