as in entities
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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Noun
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China has its tight controls on all online activity, maintaining bans on top American digital entities such as Google Search, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
13 Oct. 2025 -
By separating, the two new entities should trade at multiples closer to their industry peers, and their combined values should be worth more than what DuPont currently trades at, which was around $76 per share on Monday for a market capitalization of about $32 billion.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Some of the gusty winds could last into Tuesday morning along the Northeast coast and could down tree branches and send unsecured objects flying.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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The cameos could be read as objects, pieces conveying a subversion of Victorian values.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Harmful substances, such as alcohol and narcotics, are typically regulated and controlled.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2025
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Investigators believed that, during the procedures, Adame and Galaz — who allegedly presented themselves as specialists — injected Rajpaul with substances used by qualified cosmetic physicians but combined them with dangerous chemicals, ABC7 reported at the time.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Channing Tatum’s Raw Physicality on The Tonight Show Channing Tatum is, above all things, a dancer.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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In 2022, life circumstances prompted her and her husband to make things official quickly.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sturgis tells Fortune that he’s frustrated by how the system fails to prepare people for the realities of the economy, and doesn’t advertise the opportunities out there for workers like him.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Existents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/existents. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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