Exist

/ɛɡˈzɪst/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality.

Example Sentences

Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other

Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]

[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.

[…], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.

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Word Forms

• exists
• existing
• existed
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• existest
• existedst
• existeth
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