I think we should improve existent parks rather than create new ones.
to some people, angels are as existent as aardvarks or astronomers
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Seventy percent of the entries in the literature review were non-existent.—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2025 Shortages of gasoline and other fuels are particularly acute in those provinces, where public transportation is almost non-existent and residents in rural areas use animals to get around or walk.—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025 Dinner was often non-existent, unless someone was lucky enough to find something to buy.—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025 Groundwater regulation is non existent in the rest of the state.—Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for existent
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borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin existent-, existens/exsistent-, exsistens, from present participle of Latin existere, exsistere "to come into view, appear, show oneself, come into being" (Late Latin, "to have real being, be, be present") — more at exist
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