How to Use nonexistence in a Sentence
nonexistence
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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
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The last definition of absence is the nonexistence or lack of.
—Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
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The nonexistence of space may certainly be hard to imagine.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2010
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That made my career path pretty clear, along with the nonexistence of women doing play-by-play.
—Jon Schultz, SFChronicle.com, 25 Jan. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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The nonexistence of any such relationship is among the agonies that torment him.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
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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
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One exception is Buddhism, which preaches the nonexistence of a stable self.
—Steve Ayan, Scientific American, 15 May 2018
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Again The Times Sports editors have relegated track and field to nonexistence.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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And what should such existence or nonexistence actually mean for us here on earth?
—Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Others have pointed out how the line separating some docuseries from reality soaps has blurred to near-nonexistence.
—Judy Berman, Time, 1 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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After anticipating these messages for hours, their nonexistence felt like an even greater letdown.
—Ellen O'Brien, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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The existence or nonexistence of an investigation is almost an exogenous factor of its own.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 July 2017
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The fear of literal nonexistence through death is addressed by many philosophical and religious traditions.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 4 June 2020
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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
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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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