nonbeing

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Noun
  • Plan It: Massacre Rim Dark Sky Sanctuary Out There in Nevada So many people think that Nevada is just the Strip and then a vast expanse of nothingness.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Her sentences, always at the shore of some great nothingness, have the intricacies and echoes of a conch shell.
    Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Something happened online, but the details are fuzzy because all the context has been flattened into nonexistence.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The body simply won’t lose consciousness, and losing it is something that cannot be willed into existence, or, rather, into nonexistence.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Conor’s passionately absorbing, poignantly observed self-refraction from individuality into idiosyncrasy lends his very reality an air of unreality.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The unreality of the present moment should be a boon for artists and all who deal in the imagination.
    Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Nonbeing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonbeing. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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