Synonyms for existing
ex·ist·ing

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1. existing

   Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the words "he is all alive," "thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying "having life," is now mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or "breathing and sounding, beauteous battle," Tennyson Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.

   Synonyms:
   active, alert, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, existent, live, lively, living, quick, subsisting, vivacious

   Antonyms:
   dead, deceased, defunct, dispirited, dull, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless

   Preposition:
   Alive in every nerve; alive to every noble impulse; alive with fervor, hope, resolve; alive through all his being.

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1. existingadjective

   presently existing

   "the existing system"

   Synonyms:
   existent

   Antonyms:
   absent, future, past

2. existent, existingadjective

   having existence or being or actuality

   "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"

   Synonyms:
   actual, existent, real

   Antonyms:
   absent, future, past

3. existingadjective

   existing in something specified

   "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"

   Synonyms:
   existent

   Antonyms:
   past, future, absent

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1. List of paraphrases for "existing":

   current, present, available, extant, prevailing, chargé, existent, list, ongoing, pre-existing, exist, al-qaem, already-existing, roster

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1. Robin Stone:

   What is your plan to keep millions of Americans, like Robin Stone, covered -- those of us with pre-existing conditions, people who are on their parents' insurance and, again, people like Robin Stone who need life-guaranteeing medication ? we could lose our insurance, and I'd be probably be dead in two months.

2. Bill Shine:

   So back when Bush was still in office, they bring over this, this pharmaceutical company, it's not a pharmaceutical, it's a vaccination company, Novaris (sic), but they make drugs also. So they are here in the United States and their goal, their number one reason for existing here is to make a flu vaccination. And then all of a sudden we have this big pandemic. It almost sounds like it's a setup.

3. Jim Phillips:

   This looks much more like a deal to dismantle existing sanctions than to dismantle nuclear infrastructure.

4. Alexei Yurchak:

   Today this original meaning of these bodies has changed – in Vietnam the body of Ho today stands for anti-colonial struggles for independence and even for new nationalism, much more than for communism, in North Korea the two Kims' bodies stand for a self-sufficient country organized around one leader and existing in the face of the 'imperialist surroundings.'.

5. Edmund Burke:

   But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.