nonbeing
Example Sentences
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Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.
From New York Times
And not only the real — after all, even the basest trivialities are real — but the omnipresent, the immanent and the imminent, the stuff of being and nonbeing.
From Los Angeles Times
And so that step backward into nonbeing is not one they’ve had to take.”
From New York Times
As Isidore knocked on the apartment door, the television died immediately into nonbeing.
From Literature
But in the insomniac’s self-satisfaction there is also, perhaps, a genuine fear of the nonbeing, the nullity, of sleep.
From The New Yorker
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