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as in perpetuity
endless time
the question whether the universe will end someday or continue to exist in eternity
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as in immortality
unending existence after death
a firm belief in the eternity of the soul
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as in forever
a long or seemingly long period of time
we waited in line for tickets for an eternity
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Recent Examples of eternity
A bit apparently means an eternity … 3-5 hours every d*** time.
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
That’s an eternity, especially in professional sports, where one great season, even one headline, can fundamentally alter franchise values.
—Jesse Silvertown, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
But the space-time — the black hole itself — will never actually shrink in size even as the radiation leaks energy into the void for all eternity.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
The girls are stationary in the car for only a few seconds, but in the morning, the photos achieve awe, scorn and eternity.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
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Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
That’s an eternity, especially in professional sports, where one great season, even one headline, can fundamentally alter franchise values.
—Jesse Silvertown, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
But the space-time — the black hole itself — will never actually shrink in size even as the radiation leaks energy into the void for all eternity.
—Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 27 May 2025
The girls are stationary in the car for only a few seconds, but in the morning, the photos achieve awe, scorn and eternity.
—Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for eternity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eternity
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To achieve this aim, Washington should apply economic and, if necessary, military pressure until Iran comes clean on its weaponization programs and abandons all or almost all uranium enrichment for perpetuity.—
JAMES JEFFREY,
Foreign Affairs,
4 July 2025
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But to sacrifice Negan to The Dama in theoretical perpetuity?—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
5 May 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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One way to mess with an option team’s Plan A is to not only stick them with third-and-forevers, but to put them in an early hole, making them throw out of desperation.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2019
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Printed with thermochromic ink, the stamp reveals a second image of the moon when a finger is pressed to it, and a sheet of 16 Forever stamps features a map of the eclipse path.—
Meg Jones,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2017
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Furthermore, parabolas and hyperbolas are equivalent to ellipses, with the addition of one or two points at infinity, respectively.—
Richard Jensen,
Scientific American,
28 Apr. 2025
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But these new infinities exhibit strange properties.—
Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
20 June 2025
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Nowadays, the outdoors with all its foreverness and fresh air is becoming that go-to place to celebrate our upcoming holidays.—
Marni Jameson,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Nov. 2020
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Nowadays, the outdoors with all its foreverness and fresh air is becoming that go-to place to celebrate our upcoming holidays.—
Marni Jameson,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Nov. 2020
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“Eternity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eternity. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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