as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonexistence
The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
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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
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The scene of Stan’s eruption mirrors the film’s opening—when, out of blackness, a nothingness, the face of a boy emerges, his eyes sunk in fear.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 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
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The ceremony last year stirred controversy because of the absence of the U.S. ambassador and other Western envoys in response to the Japanese city’s refusal to invite officials from Israel.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Aug. 2025
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These local laws signal a growing trend among municipalities to provide greater employment protections for cannabis users, particularly in the absence of broader state-level safeguards.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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