(now, usually, literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
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The Universe has no explanation: it just is.
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That was the week that was.
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There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.
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1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, II.2, link:
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And after this death there is to be no resurrection. The old man of sin has ceased to be; once crucified, he lives no more. The death is utter; the end complete.
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1893, Andrew Martin Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, and Other Sermons, 2nd edition, volume 12, E.P. Dutton & Company, page 116:
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The genial hotel manager of the past is no more. Now owner of a trucking concern and living in Belgium, Rusesabagina says the horrors he witnessed in Rwanda "made me a different man."
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2004 December 13, Richard Schickel, “Not Just an African Story”, in Time: