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Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld.
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
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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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Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner get their rom-com on for new A24 film Eternity, which follows a woman who, in the afterlife, must choose to spend forever with her longtime husband or her first love, who died young and waited decades for her.—
Kirsten Chuba,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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In Eternity, a new romantic fantasy from director and co-writer David Freyne, Olsen plays Joan, a woman who finds herself at the junction of the afterlife in a tricky position.—
Jack Smart,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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Muncy delivered the first of three clutch home runs that led the Dodgers into baseball immortality.—
Gabe Smallson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Thanks to Lin’s immortal mother, Zi Yuan (Michelle Yeoh), and a magical dagger that strips the Emperor of his immortality, Rick and Alex defeat him.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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