nonexistent
Britishadjective
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not having being or existence
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not present under specified conditions or in a specified place
Other Word Forms
- nonexistence noun
Example Sentences
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“The number of defaults are almost nonexistent and really troubled situations are very small,” Bissonnette said on last month’s earnings call.
From Barron's
“I thought it was going to be impossible. If you’d asked me five days ago, I would have said the chances of you solving this mystery were nonexistent, and—how do you feel?”
From Literature
And he said, the death of large males is “basically nonexistent in most males.”
From Los Angeles Times
Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains “virtually nonexistent, with activity largely limited to Iranian vessels,” analysts at J.P.
From MarketWatch
EBRI’s estimates for people enrolled in privatized Medicare Advantage are significantly lower, because it assumes they will be able to take advantage of the program’s lower, or even nonexistent, premiums.
From MarketWatch
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