The Clue
Real (8 letter answer)
The Answer
EXISTING
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Notes
The answer EXISTING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
EXIST as a verb:
1. (exist, be) = have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
2. (exist, survive, live, subsist) = support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
EXISTING as an adjective:
1. (existent, existing) = 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"
2. existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"
3. presently existing; "the existing system"