existed

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And yet it holds an allure for those of us that were there before this context existed.

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

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verb

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for existed.

verb

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

Example sentences

And yet it holds an allure for those of us that were there before this context existed.

NetBank was able to pull in information from my credit cards long long ago when it existed.

If it had a future, it wouldn't have existed for several years and still be missing payroll.

Didn't Google learn from Buzz that the world didn't want another social network of the kind that already existed?

They existed in 1981, but early DOS only supported 120KB per side, and early PCs were fitted with single-sided floppy drives.

Adblock hide them as if they never existed in the first place.

Some of those organizations existed to push back against big business, especially railroads, back when railroads had a monopoly on shipments to small towns.

If such a thing existed, I'd be among the first to stand up and applaud it.

That's a problem which has existed since Unicode 1.0.

Tables were used for layout before CSS existed.

In some respects the modern web is great at that, but for content such as existed back when the web was young and weird it is less so.

> Didn't Google learn from Buzz that the world didn't want another social network of the kind that already existed?

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The answer is "all of us", or at least in the very level and equal society that existed post-WW2.

The boundary already existed, the API is just the "formalization" of that.

As far as "well, it's better than what existed" w/r/t Uber, It's still illegal.

Like there's nobody who can reasonably make the argument "yeah, but how else can we fund the development of solitaire computer games?" It already existed.