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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Compared to the barely existent returns traditional savings accounts are offering now, a money market account arguably becomes the most attractive option for savers currently.—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026 Founder Efstathios Lampsas, a cook at the royal court who trained in Paris, had the chutzpah to introduce a truly grand hotel to Athens at a time when tourism infrastructure was almost non-existent.—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026 The call is in service of his election lie, of course, an answer to the non-existent scourge of voter fraud that rigged just the 2020 election and somehow not the 2016 or 2024 elections.—S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026 Roads can range from bad to non-existent.—Benjamin Tepler, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026 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