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US
/ɛɡˈzɪstəns, ɪɡˈzɪstəns/
]
[ UK /ɛɡzˈɪstəns/ ]
[ UK /ɛɡzˈɪstəns/ ]
NOUN
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everything that exists anywhere
the biggest tree in existence
they study the evolution of the universe -
the state or fact of existing
laws in existence for centuries
a point of view gradually coming into being
he appeared on the face of the earth one day
How To Use existence In A Sentence
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
- These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
- In wartime, heroes come into being in times of crisis; in peacetime, they come into existence by doing trifles in everyday life.
- And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
- This platform of existence, many millions of years old, continues today with the gorillas and chimpanzees. Times, Sunday Times
- It is difficult to see why dialogue negates or denies the existence of authority.
- The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
- For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
- I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit. Les Miserables