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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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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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WandaVision’s Elizabeth Olsen recently opened up about her own frustrations performing inside the physical nothingness required to bring Marvel’s big-budget projects together in postproduction.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Sep. 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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And someone other than Nikola Jokic was going to have to score to make up for Murray’s absence.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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In the absence of changes to entitlement spending, which Trump has promised not to make, the best way to afford necessary upgrades to U.S. defenses is to expand GDP with growth-friendly policies on taxes and regulation.Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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