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existed

  • past participle of exist.
  • past tense form of exist.

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On the bright June night my family and I saw the Eras tour, her surprise songs were "I Forgot That You Existed" and "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things."

From Salon • Nov. 24, 2024

Netflix's new Western, The Harder They Fall, opens with an intriguing disclaimer: "While the events in this film are fictionalised... These. People. Existed."

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2021

One Fourth of July post recommended quoting the Minnie Riperton song “Never Existed Before”: “The light of the stars… the clouds in the sky/The fireworks on the Fourth of July.”

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2018

It took me to albums such as As If It Never Existed by voidesque, an electroacoustic composition graduate, not to mention professional Javanese gamelan player, whose warped beats are sometimes generated by algorithms.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

Behold where, round thy narrow house, The graves unnumber'd lie; The multitude that sleep below Existed but to die.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert