mere existence
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And while those movies, just like “Esta Isla,” don’t address the socioeconomic issues facing Puerto Ricans didactically, their mere existence is in itself a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Shohei Ohtani is such a singular presence in the 150-year history of Major League Baseball that his mere existence required the creation of an entirely new rule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
And yet its mere existence, at the geographical center of such a devastating history, told me to go inside.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024
Yet Barnard b's mere existence hints at the presence of other exoplanets in that solar system, some of which may be more hospitable to life.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
As if my mere existence posed some kind of threat.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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