as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonbeing
Most of us connect emotionally with being in that box, hammocked between being and nonbeing.
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Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonbeing
Noun
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This would not have been a serious consideration midway through Newcastle’s 2-0 win against struggling, flailing Nottingham Forest — the nothingness of half-time was like a blessed relief — but a stodgy, slow-burning afternoon concluded with Howe’s team comfortable and edging towards dominance.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Eckhardt’s commentaries on God and scripture are dense and recursive, breaking ideas into component parts, placing them onto higher and lower planes, making hierarchies and triads out of them until eventually becoming something like an investigation into being and nothingness themselves.—
Jon Raymond
August 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Every emotion in New Orleans is amplified, either by alcohol or heat or the constant threat of nonexistence.—
Jeanie Riess,
New Yorker,
23 Aug. 2025
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Mueller intimated in his report that his failure to prove a Trump-Russia conspiracy may have been due to the Trump team’s lack of cooperation rather than its nonexistence.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
24 July 2025
Noun
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In rare cases, sleepers gain insight into the unreality of their dreams from within the dream itself.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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For Leader, this hammers home the unreality of a studio without an intense marketing machine around it.—
Ryan Gaur,
IndieWire,
10 June 2025
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“Nonbeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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