How to Use existential in a Sentence

existential

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• Yes, there’s the existential dread that comes with choosing a career path in the arts.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And the core of the front office doesn’t seem to be grappling with any existential crisis.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• His Nazis are evil enough, and the movie does acknowledge the existential threat of the Holocaust.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• All in all, that’s just the right existential headspace for a museum trip.
  — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
• Looming over all of this is an existential threat to ICWA.
  — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• To me, every story involves travel in, in the existential sense of the word.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
• The years-long delays are an existential threat to many projects’ chances of getting built.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
• The specter of that was read by Israel, quite rightly, as an existential threat.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
• Yeah, that’s, that would be the next existential crisis.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 5 May 2023
• In truth, this is hardly an existential matter for the league.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• In the background of this narrative is a more existential crisis of the woodland.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
• But writers on the picket lines view AI as an existential threat.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023
• The cast chaotically tries to build a new restaurant—and gets existential about working in the food world.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2023
• And the hero who will likely rejoin the Avengers despite his death to fight this massive existential threat.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Dec. 2022
• One reason the risks may be downplayed is that some in the tech industry say fears of existential risks from AI are overblown.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• Kindergarten is a bit early to be fed that existential nugget.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• It may be seen as an existential threat by state parties.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
• The whole thing has thrown life into an existential tailspin, and turned his status as Ryder’s go-to guy into a thing of the past.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• The fear of catastrophic events and existential threats is not confined to the United States.
  — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• Take a drink every time someone mentions Trump 2024 (to ease the existential dread).
  — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
• In the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News faced an existential crisis.
  — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
• As the Golden Globes turn the page on an existential crisis, a battered Hollywood is eager to welcome the awards back to the fold.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• But the cuts pose an existential threat to many businesses.
  — Ian Lovett and Nikita Nikolaienko, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
• But the setting is small too and the end of the world quickly arrives at the building’s front door for a second half that lands like an existential roof collapse.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
• The prospect of going to space has evoked a sort of existential journey for the university student.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• This is not just a more existential thought than is usually expressed on a talk show.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• All of these changes have made for an existential moment for doctors, too: The disease they were trained to treat is no longer the disease most of their patients have.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Has that structure eased the existential dilemma of daily life for you?
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
• For the future is still one of our two great existential unknowns, and no matter what the data purports to tell us, Palo Alto is no Delphi.
  — Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
• For many of the 1.8 million nonprofits active in the US, rolling out a successful campaign on Giving Tuesday is of existential importance.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024