exist
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Such polling did not exist at the time of the American Revolution, but historical records show queerness did.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
"When I started, we didn't exist," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Like Mr. Jones, Mr. Woolfson is struck by the spectacular range of organisms that could in principle exist, of which evolution has realized only an “infinitesimally small sampling.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
But for nine years, South Carolina has operated as if this law did not exist.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
That would be difficult as long as the current Senate exists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
But the Italy that inspired those studies no longer exists.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The findings suggest that a meaningful opportunity for climate action still exists.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
That’s why Social Security exists, even for people who are comfortable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Investors must operate within the world they have, not the one they wish existed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"I'd found my birth mum being able to sort of make her truly happy. And I'd found a family really that I never really knew existed."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
If your scenario existed in a laboratory, maybe.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
None of that existed in the real world, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
They were young men in a hurry—they couldn’t believe the trade existed and didn’t know how much longer it would—but they spent several weeks arguing among themselves about it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
It requires updating, and in some cases, completely replacing, existing machinery, which can be costly and time consuming.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
West Virginia adopted the nation’s first program to make those funds universally available in 2021 and today, 18 states are inviting any student to partake, regardless of family income or existing private school enrollment.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
At Mercedes, his role will be filled by a minor reshuffle of the existing young-driver programme, arguably the most effective in F1.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Irving Technology’s software was trained on existing large language models with input from practicing deal lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The map dramatically shows the reduction in Indigenous lands, but its scale does not allow the “today” map to accurately depict all existing tribal offices and land holdings across the country.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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