as in reality
the fact of being or of being real
the existence of UFO's is something that people continue to argue about
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Recent Examples of existence
The very existence of Boley, and other towns like it, proved what was then—in many white people’s minds—a radical proposition: that Black people could thrive on their own.
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Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Laroche ignores that and encourages him to deny the existence of the transmission.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
Biden was criticized not only for the delay in taking action but for refusing to even inform the public of the balloon’s existence until it was spotted by a newspaper photographer in Montana.
—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Dec. 2024
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Caleb Gayle, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Laroche ignores that and encourages him to deny the existence of the transmission.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
Biden was criticized not only for the delay in taking action but for refusing to even inform the public of the balloon’s existence until it was spotted by a newspaper photographer in Montana.
—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Dec. 2024
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The brutal reality, however, is that both sides are using drones more intensely and more effectively as this war grinds on.Brian Mann, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
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Virtually all of them, even the most entertaining and quirky ones, suggested an underlying preoccupation with the power of narrative to shape our sense of reality.Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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There is no sense in which My Lady Jane is intended as an accurate historical portrayal of 16th century England; the deliberate anachronisms alone are a testament to that, not to mention the constant presence of magic.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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The existence of dark clouds of dense dust and the fact that the cluster is rich in ionized gas suggest the presence of ongoing star-formation processes.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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One possible explanation for this is the dilution effect, which suggests that the prevalence of a pathogen can increase at a site if species richness is reduced—with land-use change being an obvious cause of species loss.Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
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This could perhaps explain why according to the MTS data, older women aged 35 to 50 years, maintained a lower prevalence of cannabis use than men, consistent with the past decade.Sarah Sinclair, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Many were abandoning their posts for basic lack of subsistence income.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Born into a family of subsistence farmers in the tiny village of Arughat, Nepal, Purnima Shrestha thought that the mountains around her were out of reach.Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Existence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/existence. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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