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[ adjective ] not having existence or being or actuality
Examples "chimeras are nonexistent" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)The conscience is non-existent in the 2 - year old . (Richard F. McLaughlin, et al., "A study of the...)Also , interlobular air drifts may be all_but nonexistent in the cow ; probably occur in the horse much_as in the human_being ; and , in contrast are present to a relatively immense degree on a segmental basis in the dog where lobules are absent ( Van_Allen and Lindskog , ' 31 ) . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)Leaving the theatre after the performance , I had a flash of intuition that life , after_all ( as Rilke said ) , is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee , and that this unpretentious , moving , clever , bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks_Atkinson retired . |
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