Example Sentences

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"It's quite a lot to pinpoint exactly the relationship and the power dynamic that was existing between Denmark, Sweden and the community at Sutton Hoo at this time, just based off-one find," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

As his life was contracting and he was existing in this gulag in these very hellish conditions, my life was expanding and all these wonderful things were happening.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Up until I was probably in my mid-20s, I felt like I was existing in spaces where I couldn’t really be my full self.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2023

The $1 billion, scientists realized, was existing, not new, money.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2022

It was only now, however, that full realization came to him of what a ruthless alien monster the other was, existing only to gratify his own purposes, unaware that others had a right to exist.

From My Fair Planet by Smith, Evelyn E.