Used in a Sentence

non-existent

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for non-existent.

Editorial note

Plug-ins and extensions are, like, mostly non-existent entities, when released under circumstances without any actual demand for them.

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Quick take

Alternative spelling of nonexistent. [Not existent or existing; not real.]

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Alternative spelling of nonexistent. [Not existent or existing; not real.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for non-existent.

adjective

Alternative spelling of nonexistent. [Not existent or existing; not real.]

Example sentences

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Plug-ins and extensions are, like, mostly non-existent entities, when released under circumstances without any actual demand for them.

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The part that particularly ticked me was that journalists were literally writing about having had lunch with a non-existent person.

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It's not a coincidence that the startup scene is nearly non-existent where unions have a strong presence (France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway).

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Also, the fact that Google’s documentation ranges from lousy to non-existent doesn’t help its case.

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> However, this means that guarantees of minimum wage and paid overtime, family and medical leave, and unemployment insurance are also non-existent.

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The separation between hardware (brain) and software (soul?) is practically non-existent.

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> The survivor bias is non-existent, The person most likely to harm your child is your other child.

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The sales pipeline has shriveled up and marketing is non-existent.

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The execution was awful on so many levels, but there will probably be room in the market for something like this once the console market is done shifting => non-existent.

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Fun fact: at least on 2k and XP, when the window goes away, the icon stays visible unless it is explicitly deleted by user code and is removed only when some message would be sent to now non-existent window (ie.

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We'd already watched them walk through it trying to complete the tasks required, the follow up questions were for clarification on why they signed up for a non-existent newsletter that we didn't ask them to sign up for.

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The survivor bias is non-existent, there were tons of kids like us back then and I don't recall any of them that didn't make it because of being unable to walk home from school or being home for an hour or two un-attended.

Quote examples

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To be equally extreme as you: please don't call the non-existent police when "the poors" storm your mansion due to their sub-par housing conditions, fifty years after the "theft" of rent control ends in your utopia.

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In America, we had had "Irish need not apply" signs in windows in the 1800s and early 1900s, but that prejudice is basically non-existent; if you think it'll give you a leg up, do it.

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>please don't call the non-existent police when "the poors" storm your mansion due to their sub-par housing conditions, fifty years after the "theft" of rent control ends in your utopia.

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I can tell all my friends - "Hey guys i'll come to your house and cut the ads out of the free magazines you're already receiving" Which is definitely not the same as "Hey guys I've received this magazine, and I cut the ads, here's the PDF" The reprint and redistribution parts are non-existent in ad blockers.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use non-existent in a sentence?

Plug-ins and extensions are, like, mostly non-existent entities, when released under circumstances without any actual demand for them.

What does non-existent mean?

Alternative spelling of nonexistent. [Not existent or existing; not real.]

What part of speech is non-existent?

non-existent is commonly used as adjective.