nonbeing
Example Sentences
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The dao is characterized as the source of all things that exist, as the source of being and nonbeing.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
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 ● Jul. 7, 2021
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 ● Dec. 3, 2018
It was no small thing to shed a lifetime of nonbeing and suddenly be seen.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
