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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Law enforcement launched a massive manhunt for the non-existent suspect.—Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025 And the next pretext might not be crime; it might be supposed voter fraud, a phenomenon that is statistically almost non-existent.—Elizabeth Goitein, Time, 27 Sep. 2025 The inventor, named in several versions of the story as Zhang Qifeng, later found to be non-existent, was reported to expect a prototype within a year and a retail price below 100,000 yuan (Around $13,900).—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025 Innuendo Innuendo is non-existent.—Katie Grant, Parents, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for existent
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Etymology
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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