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Recent Examples of nonexistence
Examples of over-blocking — blocking of non-infringing content — have been rare to the point of nonexistence.
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
Devices that aspire to nonexistence can still, however, be big business.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
The politicians wanted to know how the city’s Department of Education signed off on a display that had brushed Israel into nonexistence.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2024
As the line separating right-of-center comedians from Fox News hosts blurs to nonexistence—and as Jon Stewart returns to rant against partisan myopia on The Daily Show—Gillis makes no claim to being wiser than anyone.
—TIME, 23 Feb. 2024
Devices that aspire to nonexistence can still, however, be big business.
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
The politicians wanted to know how the city’s Department of Education signed off on a display that had brushed Israel into nonexistence.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
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At this point, resisting the urge to rotate, the superfluid suddenly spawns a single quantum vortex — a whorl of atoms surrounding a column of nothingness that extends to the bottom of the bucket.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The star stays visible for around a week, before fading back into nothingness for the best part of the next century.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Yes, the unreality of Penelope’s fable-like frequency can be discombobulating; seasoned outdoors enthusiasts and Alone heads will probably pull their hair out at the lack of realistic detail.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Some kinds of hallucination, various psychedelic hallucinations among them, combine a sense of unreality with perceptual vividness, as does lucid dreaming.Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2019
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In the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States, such as Europe’s GDPR, there has been a surge in legal and regulatory actions against organizations under consumer protection laws like the FTC Act and various state consumer protection regulations.Ian Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Wakanda Forever, this movie is haunted by the absence of Chadwick Boseman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's original King T’Challa who died following a battle with colon cancer in 2020.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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