nonexistent
adjective
non·ex·is·tent
ˌnän-ig-ˈzi-stənt 
: not in actual or present occurrence : not existing
… historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving are almost nonexistent …—
Jasper White
Jasper WhiteWater was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.—Noel Vietmeyer
Noel VietmeyerAlthough brain size and organization became basically modern at least 100,000 years ago, with the robust Neanderthals, their advances in tool-making were slight, their self-expression through art virtually nonexistent.—John Noble Wilford
John Noble WilfordExamples of nonexistent in a Sentence
our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today
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Although Toronto’s other three lines didn’t dominate, Philadelphia’s offence was simply nonexistent.
—Kevin Papetti, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
But why would so many people take any time at all to apply for a position when the odds of actually earning the job were nonexistent?
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
What To Know One of many hypothetical questions resulting from a nonexistent DOE is what students and institutions would do without the OCR accepting and investigating complaints.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
However, taxpayers need to file a tax return and claim the recovery rebate credit by the April 15 deadline, even if any income from a job, business or other source was minimal or nonexistent, according to the IRS.
—Susan Haigh and Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025
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Kevin Papetti, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
But why would so many people take any time at all to apply for a position when the odds of actually earning the job were nonexistent?
—Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
What To Know One of many hypothetical questions resulting from a nonexistent DOE is what students and institutions would do without the OCR accepting and investigating complaints.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
However, taxpayers need to file a tax return and claim the recovery rebate credit by the April 15 deadline, even if any income from a job, business or other source was minimal or nonexistent, according to the IRS.
—Susan Haigh and Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Nonexistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonexistent. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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