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exist (verb), exists; existed; existing
1. To be present in the real word; to be: Some people wonder if life really exists on other planets.
2. To live, especially under difficult conditions; to survive: After losing his wife and job, Sam existed or subsisted on very little and had to beg to stay alive.
3. To take place or occur in a certain place or situation: The problem of bicyclists riding on the streets in town still exists although some roads have been improved and have special bike lanes.
(Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed)
(slavery not only existed in the past, but it still exists in parts of the present world)