existing
adjective
already or previously in place, before being replaced, altered, or added to.
nonexisting
-
a word derived from
existing.
Example Sentences
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Two New York attorneys are facing sanctions after citing nonexisting case law in a court filing that had been provided by Chat GPT, an internet chatbot that conducts research upon request.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Federal lawmakers, when writing the relief bill, made it clear that the money should be disbursed on a per capita basis directly to the cities and towns in nonexisting counties.
From Washington Times ● May 7, 2021
Davies says the Soviet mapmakers did make some mistakes — misnamed roads, putting in nonexisting subway sections.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2018
Often on the eve of an audit by outside accountants, squads of employees would work through the night creating records for nonexisting policyholders.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is impossible to search the records of those dark, but now happily nonexisting tribunals; but the mind recoils with affright even to form a guess of the multitudes who perished.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
