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as in actual
existing in fact and not merely as a possibility
to some people, angels are as existent as aardvarks or astronomers
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as in existing
having being at the present time
the coelacanth is one existent fish that was once thought to be entirely extinct
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as in entity
one that has a real and independent existence
other worlds are existents that are generally taken for granted in works of science fiction
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Recent Examples of existent
Sam Blum, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Raise Your Beds Don't have room for flower beds in your itsy-bitsy or rather non-existent front yard?
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
It must be said that the political opposition in El Salvador was close to non-existent, and Bukele had no trouble leaving it light years behind.
—Óscar Martínez, The Dial, 30 Apr. 2026
Such struggles have been non-existent when Oettinger faces his home-state team.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
But what Takatsu didn’t realize, and many others wouldn’t know until Murakami inked his paltry, 2-year, $34 million contract with those White Sox, was that the market for him had been nearly non-existent.
—Sam Blum, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Raise Your Beds Don't have room for flower beds in your itsy-bitsy or rather non-existent front yard?
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 6 May 2026
It must be said that the political opposition in El Salvador was close to non-existent, and Bukele had no trouble leaving it light years behind.
—Óscar Martínez, The Dial, 30 Apr. 2026
Such struggles have been non-existent when Oettinger faces his home-state team.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for existent
Adjective
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That space was brought to life inside the Plaza’s actual theater, where the walls were repapered in gold, adding to the gold lame Austrian curtain onstage.—
Rachel Wallace,
Architectural Digest,
29 May 2026
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More affordable housing near transit with actual income targeting for the families already living here.—
Mercury News Editorial Board,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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The Zara-Bad Bunny collaboration worked because it was anchored in a pre-existing cultural narrative rather than a corporate invention.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Annual applications jumped from about 850 between 2010 and 2014 to 5,379 in 2025, following a 2014 state Supreme Court ruling that broadened qualifying pre-existing conditions.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
31 May 2026
Noun
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While Liden’s displacement and depersonalization of private property in Unheimlich Manöver could be perceived as the inversion of Darboven’s cocooning, the artists share a preoccupation with the silent speech of objects and with language as a spatial entity.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Like OpenAI, Anthropic pairs a controlling mission entity (the Long-Term Benefit Trust) with a public benefit corporation.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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As the federal government seeks to impose populism from above, pluralism from above is another real possibility.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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The bar, Salon Salon, is a real destination drinking spot, though.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Despite the game’s authenticity to real pinball, Space Cadet wasn’t based on an extant physical table, but was merely one part of the Full Tilt!—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
26 May 2026
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Enter Magnanti, who had spent more than four years studying Bede’s history and was compiling a catalog of extant copies.—
Andrea Rosa,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The poem persists both as a series of occurrences and as a solid object.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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The game’s objective is to group words or objects into four groups of four based on commonalities within each group as quickly as possible.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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The scarcity of factual support for the claims hasn’t been lost on technologists and encryption experts.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
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On a factual task, in domains like law or medicine, disagreement is real but bounded.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Higher education institutions have been staring down a looming demographic reality that threatens not only their financial well-being but the nation’s workforce at large.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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There is no sugarcoating the reality.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
31 May 2026
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“Existent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/existent. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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