existence
Example Sentences
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Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.
From Los Angeles Times
She said a diplomatic reset that ignores "the existence of secret bans" is "not a reset at all".
From BBC
Mitigating, James Scobie KC said his client had been brought up with very little education and had lived "a pretty feral existence from a young age in which fast cars were very much his life".
From BBC
Foreign investors only first learned about the existence of L’Imad in December, when David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance disclosed the Middle East fund had agreed to take part in its bid to buy Warner Bros.
“Exactly so. They have lived,” said Irian, “since the beginning of human life, and they will live until the end of human existence. Perhaps beyond. And they do not forget.”
From Literature
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