I think we should improve existent parks rather than create new ones.
to some people, angels are as existent as aardvarks or astronomers
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Dinner was often non-existent, unless someone was lucky enough to find something to buy.—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025 Groundwater regulation is non existent in the rest of the state.—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025 At a time when federal funding for walk-in hunting programs is limited to non-existent, new programs like these are even more important for hunters and local landowners.—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025 It was born with the same temperature everywhere, it was born spatially flat, and it was born in such a way that those non-existent high-energy relics were forbidden.—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for existent
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borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin existent-, existens/exsistent-, exsistens, from present participle of Latin existere, exsistere "to come into view, appear, show oneself, come into being" (Late Latin, "to have real being, be, be present") — more at exist
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