How to Use nonexistence in a Sentence

nonexistence

noun

• That, though, was a lyrical and oblique work that heard the abyss of nonexistence roaring within long silences.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• The last definition of absence is the nonexistence or lack of.
  — Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• The nonexistence of space may certainly be hard to imagine.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2010
• That made my career path pretty clear, along with the nonexistence of women doing play-by-play.
  — Jon Schultz, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• For nonbinary youth like Davi, that means nothing less than a shift from nonexistence to existence in the eyes of the law.
  — Annie Tritt, Vox, 28 Mar. 2018
• My family does not celebrate this, and the other children camping with us all are aware of the nonexistence of the bunny.
  — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 17 Apr. 2017
• But there was something about the nonexistence of female foosball tables that brought home the magnitude of this form of gender bias.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• The nonexistence of any such relationship is among the agonies that torment him.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• With more and more systems and solutions being moved to the cloud, after-hours and on-call work has waned to a degree of near nonexistence in most tech environments.
  — Paige Francis, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• One exception is Buddhism, which preaches the nonexistence of a stable self.
  — Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
• Again The Times Sports editors have relegated track and field to nonexistence.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• Even with just a fraction of the investment, the Netherlands has launched its women’s team from nonexistence to almost-World-Cup-champions in little more than a decade.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 7 July 2019
• According to the Cambridge University philosopher Stephen Cave, the fear of death is an innate fear of nonexistence.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
• And what should such existence or nonexistence actually mean for us here on earth?
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The charming monstrosity abhors Bonnie’s love, though, and would rather return to the warm embrace of nonexistence.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 13 June 2019
• The Department of Justice would not comment on the existence or nonexistence of this investigation to The Verge.
  — Ashley Carman, The Verge, 20 Apr. 2018
• There was no perceivable difference between his existence and nonexistence, as far as any of us were concerned.
  — Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2017
• Because the presumption of nonexistence does not allow for the possibility of live crawfish steamed in chile sauce, while Nothingness the restaurant does.
  — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• Others have pointed out how the line separating some docuseries from reality soaps has blurred to near-nonexistence.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
• Rogen stated something about Father Christmas’s nonexistence and took pleasure in the crestfallen look on Daley’s face that followed.
  — Justin Caffier, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2021
• The playwright Mr. Bock makes good on the presumptuous promise of his title, with a comprehensive micro-macro look at one middle-aged gay man’s existence, in which even nonexistence becomes a coup de théâtre.
  — Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2016
• Players explode into nonexistence when soaked through in rival colors and fly back into the fight after a few seconds on the sidelines spent checking the loadout of the person responsible for their defeat.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
• After anticipating these messages for hours, their nonexistence felt like an even greater letdown.
  — Ellen O'Brien, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• One that has continuously attempted to push nonwhites into nonexistence through crusades that have been defended by the law.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 13 Apr. 2018
• The inspector general’s office says its policy is to not comment on the existence or the nonexistence of an investigation.
  — Cecilia Kang and Sydney Ember, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Eventually, according to Hawking, enough of this radiation will fly away from a black hole that the huge gravity well will evaporate away into nonexistence.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• The existence or nonexistence of an investigation is almost an exogenous factor of its own.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• The fear of literal nonexistence through death is addressed by many philosophical and religious traditions.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
• What was supposed to protect media in its reportage brought about the deterioration of journalistic standards to the point of virtual nonexistence.
  — WSJ, 29 Mar. 2021
• After all, one implication of the center’s nonexistence is that parties have a lot more freedom to move the poles of America’s political debate than is popularly believed.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 30 July 2017

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