nonexistent
adjective
non·ex·is·tent
ˌnän-ig-ˈzi-stənt 
: not in actual or present occurrence : not existing
… historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving are almost nonexistent …—
Jasper White
Jasper WhiteWater was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.—Noel Vietmeyer
Noel VietmeyerAlthough brain size and organization became basically modern at least 100,000 years ago, with the robust Neanderthals, their advances in tool-making were slight, their self-expression through art virtually nonexistent.—John Noble Wilford
John Noble WilfordExamples of nonexistent in a Sentence
our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today
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This is where one of the biggest challenges lay, extant garments are nonexistent and there are not a lot of surviving images from ancient times which show what people were wearing.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
His workload has been nonexistent for three and a half months.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Representatives of this nonexistent country have given statements at U.N. events and posed for photos with global statesmen, American congressmen and the mayor of Newark.
—Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
So, these black holes would produce powerful jets both early and later in their lifetimes, with an interlude in the middle where the jets are either weak or nonexistent.
—David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
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Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
His workload has been nonexistent for three and a half months.
—R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Representatives of this nonexistent country have given statements at U.N. events and posed for photos with global statesmen, American congressmen and the mayor of Newark.
—Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
So, these black holes would produce powerful jets both early and later in their lifetimes, with an interlude in the middle where the jets are either weak or nonexistent.
—David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Nonexistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonexistent. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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