existence
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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
It was a strange marriage between the studios, which needed the support of the magazines, and the magazines, whose existence depended on the success and goodwill of the industry.”
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
The lab said on Tuesday that one of its internal models has solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a fundamental question about the rules that describe how liquids and gases move.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
On the assumption that the non-surviving portfolios were behind the market when they went out of existence, the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s performance rank among the newsletters is at the 92nd percentile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The colors deepened, glorifying Ishtar and pushing Nergal into a darkness that verged on consuming existence.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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The seventh episode reveals she’s being dropped into an assortment of existences and innie personas while her outie is trapped in a sterile Lumon dormitory.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
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
Which even the military ended because it called on gay people to deny or hide their existences.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
Did the birds’ insignificant little existences have any meaning at all?
From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen
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