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Beyond small vendors, the informal sector also includes large numbers of people employed without a contract or social security coverage in artisanal trades, security, the restaurant industry or cleaning, who face a precarious existence.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

The solution that OpenAI says it has now reached for the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem resolved two out of the four statements in the proof that the Millennium Prize had demanded.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

What the Morningstar ranking does not include, however, are all the mutual funds that existed in 1976 but went out of existence at some point along the way.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the bitter divisions that had threatened the nation’s existence in its earliest years cooled, temporarily, as its 50th birthday approached.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Maybe the roses were a token from the Virgencita, a small light in her otherwise gloomy existence, a gift to brighten her spirits.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Still, Harper and Yasmin’s existences are inextricably linked, gnarled together in a helix of favors and bargains.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

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

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