as in nothingness
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Recent Examples of nonexistence
Giving them physical form, Byers doubles down on Rabelais’ rhetorical position but also destabilizes it by materializing the books’ nonexistence.
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Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The worry was that interfaith couples would not raise their children as Jewish, shrinking the Jewish community into nonexistence.
—Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
So Far The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Despite the likely nonexistence of this fabled list, there are other aspects of the Epstein story that could be clarified in the years to come, should the right materials come to light.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
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Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The worry was that interfaith couples would not raise their children as Jewish, shrinking the Jewish community into nonexistence.
—Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
So Far The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Despite the likely nonexistence of this fabled list, there are other aspects of the Epstein story that could be clarified in the years to come, should the right materials come to light.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonexistence
Noun
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From there, the movie around her is soon reduced to a nothingness of its own making.—
Chase Hutchinson,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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Alexander Vilenkin, meanwhile, has suggested that the universe instead emerged spontaneously from a state of nothingness via a strange quantum mechanics phenomenon known as quantum tunneling.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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All those books teaching parents how to take care of their children—the first year, the first eighteen months, the first five or ten years—none of them addresses this difficulty: for parents and for children, the border between reality and unreality is not always clearly marked.—
Yiyun Li,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
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As the novel progresses, this sense of unreality sharpens.—
Jordan Kisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Russo’s absence highlights the lack of a natural backup striker England have heading into the Euros.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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In the absence of such winks and nods, the film would play like a high-budget hostage video.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Nonexistence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonexistence. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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