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Existing   /ɪgzˈɪstɪŋ/   Listen
Existing

adjective
1.
Presently existing.
2.
Having existence or being or actuality.  Synonym: existent.  "Much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"  Antonym: nonexistent.
3.
Existing in something specified.



Exist

verb
(past & past part. existed; pres. part. existing)
1.
Have an existence, be extant.  Synonym: be.
2.
Support oneself.  Synonyms: live, subsist, survive.  "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?" , "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"



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... me, and spend the night," he said in a hospitable way. "We will entertain you the best we can under the peculiar conditions existing here. If you care to, you can tell me all about yourselves; and I promise you that before you go to sleep this night I will place in your possession an address in Northern France where you will likely find my partner, under another name. But you must swear to me that under ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

... Bethune they found still existing as a town. It has been bombarded often but not utterly destroyed, and from there they ran out four miles to Festubert, because the little that the Germans have left of the thirteenth-century church and village, burns with ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... sent him lists of the books needed. At the same time, at Chekhov's suggestion, something like an Information Bureau was instituted in connection with the Taganrog Library. There were to be catalogues of all the important commercial firms, all the existing regulations and government enactments on all current questions, everything, in fact, which might be of immediate service to a reader in any practical difficulty. The library at Taganrog has now developed into a fine educational ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... years, both in England and America, there had been indications of an approaching modification in the existing forms of periodical literature, enlarging its scope to something better and higher than the brief and barren resume of current events to which the Gazette or News-Letter of the day was in the main confined, and affording an ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... open the switches in the main power circuits. The control switches are systematically assembled upon the control bench board in conjunction with dummy bus bars and other apparent (but not real) metallic connections, the whole constituting at all times a correct diagram of the existing connections of the main power circuits. Every time the operator changes a connection by opening or closing one of the main switches, he necessarily changes his diagram so that it represents the ...
— The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment • Anonymous


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