nonexistence

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for nonexistence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • In rare cases, sleepers gain insight into the unreality of their dreams from within the dream itself.
    Rachel Barr, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For Leader, this hammers home the unreality of a studio without an intense marketing machine around it.
    Ryan Gaur, IndieWire, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Most of us connect emotionally with being in that box, hammocked between being and nonbeing.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Multiple players have stepped up in their absence.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On the labor market side, data from private payrolls firm ADP is one of the tools investors can focus on in the absence of the BLS report.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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