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If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
For example, such possessions might have been buried with an individual for use in the afterworld.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
Tilda Swinton’s benevolent wood sprite also has a more ambiguous twin, who lives in the afterworld, with a group of poker-playing rabbits as her underlings.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
The show imagines a future 15 years from now, in which people can live beyond their corporeal bodies by uploading their consciousness into a visual afterworld.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 Mar. 2022
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
For example, such possessions might have been buried with an individual for use in the afterworld.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
Tilda Swinton’s benevolent wood sprite also has a more ambiguous twin, who lives in the afterworld, with a group of poker-playing rabbits as her underlings.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022
The show imagines a future 15 years from now, in which people can live beyond their corporeal bodies by uploading their consciousness into a visual afterworld.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
Noun
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Trapped in this otherworld, the only way out is to keep the story moving forward until the end credits roll.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22) Connecting with the otherworld?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In court filings challenging a permit issued in Michigan, Bay Mills Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Paula Carrick explained that such items are often buried with the deceased for their journey in the afterlife.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
3 July 2025
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Quirky skeleton figurines in everyday (and afterlife) scenarios—playing pickleball, slurping ramen, or sipping potions mid-scroll.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2025
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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
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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
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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