EXISTED Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

existed

verb

past tense of exist

as in lived

to have life strive to have a full, rich life rather than merely exist

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Recent Examples of existed That slower, batch‑style approach existed, in part, because updating critical systems can mean taking them offline, and there is always a risk that a new patch breaks something important. —

Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 June 2026 This wild area includes sharks, which have existed for more than 400 million years. —

Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026 The judge who presided over the preliminary hearing found that enough evidence existed in the case to go to trial but noted that the standard at a preliminary hearing is a much lower bar than proof beyond a reasonable doubt as required at trial. —

Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 Curly garlic scapes, purple kohlrabi, pungent spring ramps, Jimmy Nardello peppers, and heritage varieties of tomatoes and apples now stack high in market stalls—along with more types of kale than most of us knew existed. —

Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026 Sections of this road had already been identified on either side of the river, suggesting that a bridge must have existed to facilitate crossings. —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026 Almost none of these companies existed four years ago. —

Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026 Years ago, in the early days of the deep learning revolution, a friend asked whether the whole field of AI research, which is roughly 70 percent male, existed because men were jealous of women’s ability to create life. —

Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026 The jury instructions state that the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a conspiracy existed to which the defendant knowingly belonged and that the acts were committed in furtherance of that conspiracy during the defendant’s membership in it. —

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026

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East of the Ohio River, elk lived throughout the Appalachian Mountains from South Carolina to New York and were reported to have been most abundant in the mountainous areas of the Cumberland and Allegheny Plateaus.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
There’s so many things happening at the same time, which is appropriate for a character that’s lived over 200 years and is an amalgamation of everybody else’s perception of him.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 June 2026