existential
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Yet despite this hope, Kiribati and its territorial waters face an existential threat from climate change.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
Two years ago, Intel’s survival “was an existential question,” Goldberg told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026
The mission statements for xAI and its chatbot Grok give scant mention to dangers of the technology even though Musk once called it an "existential threat" to humanity.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
The tension between those two ideas—China as existential competitor and China as manageable counterpart—runs through the entire approach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
She also plays with to be, the quintessential^ existential verb, to engage our existential puzzlement: Would I then be someone else or would I just no longer be?...
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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