have existed
- present perfect of exist.
Example Sentences
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"Small venues were a huge, formative part of our journey. We wouldn't have existed without them," says singer Ellie Rowsell.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
For their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“So that’s something worth celebrating, that we have this incredible place that maybe shouldn’t have existed in the first place, maybe shouldn’t have stuck around, and yet it does.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
I was interested in the pictures of the bare landscape, wondering what the Martian weather conditions were like and if life might ever have existed there.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
