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as in immortality
unending existence after death hoping to join her deceased parents in the afterlife

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Recent Examples of afterlife These accounts, Allen argues, provide a window into the afterlife and offer insight into the nature of the soul’s journey after death. Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025 Marge is seen one last time in the afterlife, making out with now-dead Ringo Starr. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 June 2025 And Johnny [Joseph Zada] is thinking about the afterlife and whether there is another afterlife after this ghost afterlife that he's been living. Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 18 June 2025 Chinese grocers in the Delta sold to Black residents, whom white merchants did not want to serve and who, in the immediate afterlife of slavery (when Black people had to rely on plantation commissaries), had not amassed enough capital to purchase or open stores themselves. Erika Hayasaki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for afterlife
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Noun
  • Plastic, of course, takes ages to break down, and only a small percentage of the world’s plastic is successfully recycled.
    LEW SICHELMAN, Miami Herald, 10 July 2025
  • Holmes said the Disney+ and ITV audience bases are complementary, rattling off stats including that less than 10% of Disney+’s audience is over the age of 55, while for ITV the figure is around 40%.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Biggs’s audience has the same emotional bath, a bath that lays claim to immortality, that Christians have on Easter morning.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • And in the simple act of scaring people out of the water, Jaws achieved a kind of immortality that few movies ever do.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • How to view planet alignment 2025 Planet parades must be observed during twilight between dawn and sunset so a glowing sky does not obscure the view.
    Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Amidst the urban twilight, two friends take photos at one of the last New York City phone booths when the phone begins to ring.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • As of Monday evening, the fire crew effectively contained 65% of the wildfire.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2025
  • But, Monday’s Fantasy 5 evening draw numbers of 1, 5, 6, 20 and 23 were on tickets obtained at Miami’s Elizabeth Market, 1386 NW 29th St., and the Publix at Hillsboro Square, 150 S. Federal Hwy., in Deerfield Beach.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Ambush began with a brush fire Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said firefighters first responded to an early afternoon report of a brushfire at Canfield Mountain, a popular hiking and biking area near the outskirts of town.
    Rebecca Boone, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
  • Norris said law enforcement received a 911 call Sunday afternoon about a brush fire and were notified a short time later that firefighters were taking gunfire.
    Olivia Munson, USA Today, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The preliminary phase of construction includes substantial soil treatment and complex ground preparation at the north portal, where construction of the launch structure for the tunnel boring machine (TBM) is intended to begin in autumn 2026.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • In a musical landscape where visibility was everything, Drake, with his head bowed, his voice soft as autumn dusk, moved in the opposite direction.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025

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“Afterlife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterlife. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.

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