otherworld

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Recent Examples of otherworld 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 The show is set in Manhattan but also on mysterious North Brother Island, rural Uganda and a theatrical otherworld where AIDS is a character of its own. Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023 Convinced that the string is just superstition, Apollo eventually cuts the string, hurtling him, his wife and his baby into a dark, deadly otherworld of New York. Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023 Her videos, rather, offer the viewer an opportunity to reside, if only for a moment, in an idyllic otherworld. Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for otherworld
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afterworld
Noun
  • Even temporary sales slumps breed alarmist pronouncements; book parties in disfavored genres begin to feel like wakes, sending off one more spirit to the inevitable afterworld of the remainder shelf.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • Constructed as an intergenerational visitation, the brothers’ reunion hits a rich vein of intimacy, elevated by a mysterious tone of faith and the afterworld.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 May 2025

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“Otherworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/otherworld. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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