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[ verb ] have an existence, be extant

Synonyms

be

Examples

"Is there a God?"

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Then Dick_Hyde , submarine_ball hurler , entered the contest and only five batters needed to face him before there existed a 3 - to 3 deadlock .

("Editorials"...)

So_be_it - then we must embark_on a crash program for 200 - megaton_bombs of the common or hydrogen variety , and neutron_bombs , which do not exist but are said to be the coming thing .

(The Providence Journal...)

An unsuccessful playwright and actor , he has faith only in himself and in a talent he is not sure exists .

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

Yet it exists and has an objective reality which can be experienced and known .

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Although the theological forms of the past continue to exist in a way they do not in a more secularized situation , the striking thing is the rapidity with which they are being reduced to a marginal existence .

2
[ verb ] support oneself

Synonyms

live survive subsist

Examples

"he could barely exist on such a low wage" "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

Used in print

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

The third credit service , Banks_for_Cooperatives , exists under authority of the Farm_Credit_Act_of_1933 .

(Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)

Very little protozoa activity existed below 40 ` F .

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

Then , he said , `` Unfortunately , only one lamechian linguist exists , and he is too old for this expedition .

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