as in immortal
lasting forever
an author who craved deathless fame
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Recent Examples of deathless
Karma wins in the end, but so does fiction—and there, waiting for the right moment to make a pass from your nightstand, the Shining Prince is truly deathless.
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Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
Fire and water have hogged the spotlight for too long; smoke has its own glamour, its own deathless wriggle.
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Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
In his deathless search for love, David becomes the ultimate vessel for it.
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Indiewire Staff,
IndieWire,
12 Aug. 2024
This might sound like the prelude to a sci-fi tale of deathless human-tardigrade hybrids, but the reality is more mundane.
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Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
10 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for deathless
Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
Fire and water have hogged the spotlight for too long; smoke has its own glamour, its own deathless wriggle.
—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
In his deathless search for love, David becomes the ultimate vessel for it.
—
Indiewire Staff,
IndieWire,
12 Aug. 2024
This might sound like the prelude to a sci-fi tale of deathless human-tardigrade hybrids, but the reality is more mundane.
—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
10 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for deathless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deathless
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Lobo As the cigar-smoking, alien, bounty hunter who teams up with Supergirl, Lobo possesses immense strength and is essentially immortal, having lived for hundreds of years.
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The closest the visually drab movie comes to excitement is the introduction of an amusing if underused Jason Momoa as Lobo, an immortal bounty hunter who looks like a heavy-metal god (or maybe a lost member of Kiss), chomping on a fat cigar and roaring around on his flying motorcycle.
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During the years living under the Islamic Republic’s repressive rule, music—which was at the forefront of my family’s life—was what kept my spirit lifted, my hope eternal, and my faith alive.
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But there’s a necessary balancing act between eyeing the future and embracing the past, which makes said future possible — and that’s where a place like this comes in, as a counterweight to the eternal pursuit of what’s next.
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Asteroids are notoriously difficult to spot from Earth against the endless darkness of space.
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In the early Seventies, demand for gauzy evocations of the past was nearly endless.
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“Deathless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deathless. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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