existential
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“Sometimes I feel like I have free will and sometimes I don’t. I feel like I might as well be played by another player. It became existential pretty quickly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
I’m a millennial writer racked by existential fears and terrified AI will steal my job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It all prompted a kind of deeply existential question: If this is how we now treat a onetime pandemic hero, what will happen the next time we face a similar public health crisis?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The four-time champion has been facing existential questions this year about his future in Formula 1.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He was a businessman, pronounced ztfynessman in his case, a hardworking, earthbound professional, more concerned with inbreeding among the lions than any overarching moral or existential scheme.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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