exists

present tense third-person singular of exist

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Recent Examples of exists Now, compare that to the infrastructure that already exists in China thanks to its sophisticated supply chains and massive motorcycle production capacity. Bultaco, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026 She’s played by Sofia Boutella in another one of the Schrader women roles who exists only as a prism to refract male anxieties, a foil to a man’s moral quandaries. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026 Perhaps the stigma that now exists around using ChatGPT to text a friend or message on a dating app will fade in the years ahead. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026 Trump has said the changes are necessary to combat widespread voter fraud, including by noncitizens, though independent election experts say there is no evidence that such fraud exists in large numbers. Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Those 31 undefined concepts in our own knowledge base were a governance failure at a company that exists to solve governance failures. Philip Brittan, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026 That disconnect exists because Raridon was held in to pass block on 91 of 295 passing snaps, a bizarre wrinkle of the Notre Dame system that’s unlikely to translate to the NFL. Jakob Sanderson, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Regulators in Colorado can only force products to be recalled in a public health emergency, but regulators can encounter hurdles to quickly establishing that one exists. Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026 And there’s a world where that exists too, not knocking that. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exists
Verb
  • While Detroit currently has enough financial wiggle room to not worry about exceeding the luxury tax, there is the NBA repeater tax levied to teams that go over the luxury tax in at least three out of four seasons.
    Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Then there is the issue of keeping the system in a quantum state.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Fostering gives cats a temporary home on the way to adoption, alleviating stress on shelters and, in some instances, saving cats’ lives.
    Emily Tarinelli, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Jupiter Island, farther north in Martin County where golfer Tiger Woods lives, has another concentration of large ocean-to-Intracoastal estates.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Exists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exists. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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