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as in eternal
lasting forever
valentines typically express the giver's everlasting love and devotion
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as in immortal
having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish
Shakespeare's plays are still being performed 400 years later because they deal with everlasting truths and universal emotions
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as in perpetuity
endless time
that special bond that has existed between mother and child from everlasting
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as in God
capitalized
the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe
people who believe that the magnificence of the natural world is proof of the existence of the Everlasting
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Recent Examples of everlasting
Zachary Basu, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows continues the everlasting war between noble assassins and shifty templars.
—Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2025
Jay Peters, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
One of his favorite sections contains sweeps of the grass little bluestem and the perennial sweet everlasting amid scattered plantings of pitch pines.
—Washington Post, 7 July 2021
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Adjective
In another sign of his everlasting campaign, Trump called for Congress to outlaw taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security benefits, despite Republicans not expected to pursue those priorities in budget talks.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Assassin's Creed Shadows continues the everlasting war between noble assassins and shifty templars.
—Jordan Minor, PCMAG, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
Here’s Meta’s explanation for the changes from a Wednesday blog post:
Our intention was to create a refreshed design of the Facebook logo that was bolder, electric and everlasting.
—Jay Peters, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2023
One of his favorite sections contains sweeps of the grass little bluestem and the perennial sweet everlasting amid scattered plantings of pitch pines.
—Washington Post, 7 July 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for everlasting
Adjective
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The eternal language of euphemism—swords and lightning—had begun its work, displacing the reality of bullets breaking bodies.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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It’s not designed to disrupt trends but remain a ‘classic’ outside of them with some eternal rock ‘n’ roll edge.—
Kate Hardcastle,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This is where the immortal pumps, kitten heels, and even boho wooden platforms come into play.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
19 Apr. 2025
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Much later, in perhaps the movie’s most immortal scene, Darcy helps Elizabeth into a carriage by holding her ungloved hand.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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He'll be stuck with these images circulating for perpetuity.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Stargate, the $500 billion effort to secure American AI supremacy for perpetuity backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank founder Masa Son, among others, will require a gargantuan amount of energy to power it.—
David Jeans,
Forbes,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Its most beautiful and bracing imagery is that of cotton fields plumbed by sharecroppers, endless skies and dusty roads, the verdant expanse of a land that has witnessed so much sorrow.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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While there are endless examples of stimming behavior, they can be categorized into one of five sensory experiences.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Its enduring relevance, uncanny foresight into technology and humanity, and now a season filled with resonant, top-tier performances make Season 7 its best Emmy contender in years.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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But Ovechkin is the most prolific, the most consistent, the most enduring — combining those legends’ finishing ability with a durability none could match, and doing it in a vastly more difficult era in which to score.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For what seemed like an eternity, Tacopina swayed back and forth, shoulder to shoulder with Mayers, whose life hung in the balance.—
Julian Sancton,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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This car was last redesigned in 2014, which is really an eternity in modern-day automotive engineering.—
Karl Brauer,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His first significant trip outside Rome as pontiff was to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, a key site in Europe's ongoing migration crisis.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine By Eugene Finkel Finkel, a historian and political scientist, offers a nuanced and highly readable account of the complex history of Ukraine from medieval times to the ongoing Russian invasion.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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No one knows whether reality contains these sorts of infinities, but experiments definitely don’t.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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These solutions go to infinity at the center of that region.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Everlasting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/everlasting. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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