nonexistent
adjective
non·ex·is·tent
ˌnän-ig-ˈzi-stənt 
: not in actual or present occurrence : not existing
… historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving are almost nonexistent …—
Jasper White
Jasper WhiteWater was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.—Noel Vietmeyer
Noel VietmeyerAlthough brain size and organization became basically modern at least 100,000 years ago, with the robust Neanderthals, their advances in tool-making were slight, their self-expression through art virtually nonexistent.—John Noble Wilford
John Noble WilfordExamples of nonexistent in a Sentence
our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today
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The gap in how local artists think and express themselves compared to their Western counterparts has never been so short — or practically nonexistent.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Pop-in is frequent and often noticeable, and both friendly and enemy AI are nearly nonexistent, with only the boss enemies putting up any semblance of a fight.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Women were encouraged to take action against men who had allegedly harmed them — often upending their lives in the process — only to find that the financial and emotional relief in coming forward might be ephemeral at best, nonexistent at worst.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Pop-in is frequent and often noticeable, and both friendly and enemy AI are nearly nonexistent, with only the boss enemies putting up any semblance of a fight.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
Women were encouraged to take action against men who had allegedly harmed them — often upending their lives in the process — only to find that the financial and emotional relief in coming forward might be ephemeral at best, nonexistent at worst.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Nonexistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonexistent. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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