as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonexistence
There are a lot of ways to interpret that, but one thing that is built into the conceit of the show is that, for the innies, the choice is work or nonexistence.
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
Our last conscious moment was the moment when our passing nonexistence and our final one would marry.
—Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
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Shauna then spies a swarm of moths attracted to a fluorescent light in the ceiling, dooming themselves to fly toward nothingness again and again and again.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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The point is to bring production back to California before the entertainment industry shrinks into nothingness.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
9 May 2025
Noun
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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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The title is the latest from Naughty Dog, a studio with a reputation for games that aspire to the aesthetics and prestige of cinema, with memorable characters that behave realistically despite the unreality of video games.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The absence of a map makes this slightly difficult.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The presence of an autoimmune disease was used as a proxy for chronic inflammation in the absence of direct measurements of participants’ inflammatory markers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 June 2025
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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