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The SEC declined to respond, with a spokesperson saying the agency doesn’t “comment on the existence or nonexistence of a possible investigation.”
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Its nonexistence is, ironically, the main thing to emerge so far from the document dump.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
It claims that these men are terrorists by virtue of their alleged membership in the Tren de Aragua gang—but evidence of this affiliation is weak to the point of nonexistence.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025
Since this plan cannot unfold without us, our nonexistence — to true believers — is inconceivable.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023
He knew, or he could imagine, the arguments which proved his own nonexistence; but they were nonsense, they were only a play on words.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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