How to Use existential in a Sentence

existential

adjective
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  • Yes, there’s the existential dread that comes with choosing a career path in the arts.
    — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • And the core of the front office doesn’t seem to be grappling with any existential crisis.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But the blast waves of Covid posed a threat that was new, and even existential, for places where density is part of the DNA.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
  • His Nazis are evil enough, and the movie does acknowledge the existential threat of the Holocaust.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • All in all, that’s just the right existential headspace for a museum trip.
    — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Looming over all of this is an existential threat to ICWA.
    — Jessica Lussenhop, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
  • To me, every story involves travel in, in the existential sense of the word.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
  • For cities like Norfolk, the next big storm is an existential threat.
    — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The years-long delays are an existential threat to many projects’ chances of getting built.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The specter of that was read by Israel, quite rightly, as an existential threat.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Yeah, that’s, that would be the next existential crisis.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • In truth, this is hardly an existential matter for the league.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But experts say the secondary effects of the fire are what pose the biggest existential threat.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • In the background of this narrative is a more existential crisis of the woodland.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But writers on the picket lines view AI as an existential threat.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2023
  • It’s like The Tree of Life in lipstick: glossy, but existential and ambitious.
    — Douglas Greenwood, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The cast chaotically tries to build a new restaurant—and gets existential about working in the food world.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2023
  • And the hero who will likely rejoin the Avengers despite his death to fight this massive existential threat.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Dec. 2022
  • One reason the risks may be downplayed is that some in the tech industry say fears of existential risks from AI are overblown.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
  • Kindergarten is a bit early to be fed that existential nugget.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • It may be seen as an existential threat by state parties.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The whole thing has thrown life into an existential tailspin, and turned his status as Ryder’s go-to guy into a thing of the past.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • We are not built to defeat huge existential threats alone.
    — Nick Fuller Googins, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The fear of catastrophic events and existential threats is not confined to the United States.
    — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Take a drink every time someone mentions Trump 2024 (to ease the existential dread).
    — Vulture, 22 Dec. 2023
  • In the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News faced an existential crisis.
    — Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • As the Golden Globes turn the page on an existential crisis, a battered Hollywood is eager to welcome the awards back to the fold.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • But the cuts pose an existential threat to many businesses.
    — Ian Lovett and Nikita Nikolaienko, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Melinda Maria and her employees roll up their sleeves and work together on existential projects in league with non-profits like A Sense of Home.
    — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Europe must now realize the existential threat that Russia poses and take the risks involved in guaranteeing peace.
    — Viktoriia Lapa, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025

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