as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonexistence
My own empirical research is based on the writings of the mid-20th century philosopher Paul Tillich, who outlines three facets of this fundamental human fear:
Fate and death – fears of nonexistence and uncertainty about one’s ultimate destiny.
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Carl F. Weems, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2025
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
Beyond their battles with the FTC, Read says, companies like Amway have sued bloggers and online critics (often former MLM participants) into nonexistence and imposed mandatory private arbitration agreements on participants that keep complaints out of public courts and the public eye.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Unfortunately, saving the day also took the child the Doctor and Belinda had wished into existence and, basically, un-wished her into nonexistence.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 June 2025
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Carl F. Weems, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2025
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
Beyond their battles with the FTC, Read says, companies like Amway have sued bloggers and online critics (often former MLM participants) into nonexistence and imposed mandatory private arbitration agreements on participants that keep complaints out of public courts and the public eye.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Unfortunately, saving the day also took the child the Doctor and Belinda had wished into existence and, basically, un-wished her into nonexistence.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
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After nearly 80 years, hope for answers to the infamous 1947 Black Dahlia murder had faded into nothingness.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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Her personality has eroded into smooth, agreeable nothingness.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Contributing to this air of unreality is Kari Kankaanpää’s production design, in which everything feels a little heightened and stylized.—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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To hear about a mass shooting in another city is to feel one is at the periphery of ongoing history; but perversely, to live near the site of a shooting is to feel nothing has changed except that unreality has come closer.—
Karan Mahajan,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Beloved ’s ghost is being and nonbeing, the chimerical in the flesh.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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Most of us connect emotionally with being in that box, hammocked between being and nonbeing.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the absence of mandatory reporting rules, she and other doctors are often left to rely on rumors, their grapevines of colleagues, and the fragments of information the state public health agency is able to gather and willing to share.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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This year, the books and magazines featured in the library address the presence and absence of women in the arts and media from different perspectives.—
Caterina De Biasio,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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