as in nothingness
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For some of us, this is a very counterintuitive notion, as the notion of things existing within and moving through some form of empty nothingness just doesn’t make any sense.
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As Bastian reads, a boy named Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), while pursued by a green-eyed creature called G’mork (Alan Oppenheimer), is dispatched by the Childlike Empress (Tami Stronach) to find the cure for the mysterious nothingness enveloping the kingdom.
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Aside from the existential issue that is Pete's nonexistence, little else goes wrong.
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Or someone who can enforce the rules without getting sued into nonexistence.
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The passion for sports is a matter of its unrealities—its past is more myth than history.
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The unreality of Lexi’s play gave us a fun-house mirror of the show cast back onto itself.
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“Nonbeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeing. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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