EXIST


Meaning of EXIST in English

verb

ADVERB

▪ actually , really

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Do these creatures really ~?

▪ already , still

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Few of these monkeys still ~ in the wild.

▪ previously

▪ no longer , not any more

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I didn't think people like that ~ed any more.

▪ not yet

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The technology did not yet ~.

▪ currently

▪ only , solely

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companies that ~ solely for the purpose of mortgage lending

▪ primarily

▪ independently

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He argued that ideas do not ~ independently of the language that expresses them.

VERB + EXIST

▪ be known to

▪

the enormous volcanoes now known to ~ on Mars

▪ appear to , be believed to , be supposed to

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They appear to ~ in significant numbers.

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a species with only about a thousand believed to ~ in the wild

▪ continue to

▪ cease to

Exist is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ alternative , ↑ attitude , ↑ bias , ↑ bond , ↑ case , ↑ challenge , ↑ competition , ↑ condition , ↑ consensus , ↑ controversy , ↑ correlation , ↑ danger , ↑ difference , ↑ disagreement , ↑ discrepancy , ↑ discrimination , ↑ distinction , ↑ doubt , ↑ effect , ↑ evidence , ↑ explanation , ↑ facility , ↑ god , ↑ gulf , ↑ imbalance , ↑ inequality , ↑ link , ↑ need , ↑ opportunity , ↑ parallel , ↑ phenomenon , ↑ possibility , ↑ practice , ↑ problem , ↑ rationing , ↑ record , ↑ regime , ↑ relationship , ↑ similarity , ↑ situation , ↑ suspicion , ↑ system , ↑ technology , ↑ tension , ↑ tradition , ↑ trust , ↑ uncertainty , ↑ vacancy

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