- exist
- verbADVERB▪ actually, really▪
Do these creatures really exist?
▪ already, still▪Few of these monkeys still exist in the wild.
▪ previously▪ no longer, not any more▪I didn't think people like that existed any more.
▪ not yet▪The technology did not yet exist.
▪ currently▪ only, solely▪companies that exist solely for the purpose of mortgage lending
▪ primarily▪ independently▪He argued that ideas do not exist independently of the language that expresses them.
VERB + EXIST▪ be known to▪the enormous volcanoes now known to exist on Mars
▪ appear to, be believed to, be supposed to▪They appear to exist in significant numbers.
▪a species with only about a thousand believed to exist in the wild
▪ continue to▪ cease toExist 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
Collocations dictionary. 2013.