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
• 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
• 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
• Kindergarten is a bit early to be fed that existential nugget.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The prospect of going to space has evoked a sort of existential journey for the university student.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Blom: As a psychologist, this is like one’s wet dream to be able to talk about death, an existential issue like this.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• There are some signs that a grassroots movement is building around fears of A.I.’s existential risks.
  — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• The use of the AI bot has elicited emotions ranging from excitement to existential angst.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 6 July 2023
• It could be seen as a classic example of the existential prisons that Black Mirror sets up so well.
  — Neil McRobert, ELLE, 22 June 2023
• With a pair of existential battles on the horizon, the white-collar office culture is no less intense than the scene on any picket line.
  — Nick Tabor, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• For some brands, the vagueness could be considered an existential threat.
  — Richard Carleton Hacker, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2024
• What if his desire above all has been existential, the impossible dodge of death?
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• The erosion in screens is posing a direct, existential threat to the production of local Nepali films, which are some 100 every year.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
• New Zealand is home to 156 species of birds, many of whom cannot fly and face an existential threat from predators, including the national icon, the kiwi.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• On the other side of the precipice, presumably, is the adult world of phonies, who all seem to know everything and have a commonsense answer for all your existential questions.
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Another existential threat came via the strikes and the months-long production shutdown.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• The dynamic took a turn for the worse in the face of the city’s September deadline on regulations that many hosts considered to be an existential threat to their way of life.
  — Molly Osberg, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2023
• Television and video were both seen as existential threats.
  — Stephen R. Greenwald, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2023
• The war posed an existential threat to Nokian’s operations.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024