nonexistence

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Recent Examples of nonexistence Giving them physical form, Byers doubles down on Rabelais’ rhetorical position but also destabilizes it by materializing the books’ nonexistence. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 The worry was that interfaith couples would not raise their children as Jewish, shrinking the Jewish community into nonexistence. Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024 So Far The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Despite the likely nonexistence of this fabled list, there are other aspects of the Epstein story that could be clarified in the years to come, should the right materials come to light. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025 Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nonexistence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
  • The point is to bring production back to California before the entertainment industry shrinks into nothingness.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
  • Picture those Void rooms: this very kind of hellish place where all angles are skewed and the different gravity rooms are glued to each other in the middle of black nothingness.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The movie itself is something of a trip; everything feels coated in a faint, menacing sheen of unreality, as if a slasher movie were just a wild twist or two away.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
  • An eerie sense of unreality runs through The Plague, which premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Their absences are notable given speculation about their political futures.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • However, in the absence of primary health care programs in many low- and middle-income countries, early detection and, at times, proper medical treatment is not always a possibility.
    Ramsha Waseem, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025

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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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