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Recent Examples of nonexistence
Examples of over-blocking — blocking of non-infringing content — have been rare to the point of nonexistence.
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
Devices that aspire to nonexistence can still, however, be big business.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
The politicians wanted to know how the city’s Department of Education signed off on a display that had brushed Israel into nonexistence.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
Devices that aspire to nonexistence can still, however, be big business.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
The politicians wanted to know how the city’s Department of Education signed off on a display that had brushed Israel into nonexistence.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
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Empty space threatens to overwhelm her lattice of pinpricks and sparkles; her granular timbres often seem on the verge of dissolving into nothingness.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
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At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Four centuries after Galileo, the United States has become an epicenter of unreality.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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Through its official media, ISIS stoked support around the world for its vivid unreality—the Salafi jihadist utopia—and presented a comprehensive and exactingly consistent picture of what life there was supposedly like.Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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Rookie Tristan da Silva, who’s already started 14 games in the absence of Banchero, is bound to take on a larger role, too.Jason Beede, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
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The Constitution contains provisions that prevent a total government shutdown in the absence of a budget, permitting the country to carry out basic functions such as collecting taxes and paying civil servants.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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