afterworld

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Recent Examples of afterworld Tilda Swinton’s benevolent wood sprite also has a more ambiguous twin, who lives in the afterworld, with a group of poker-playing rabbits as her underlings. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 9 Dec. 2022 The show imagines a future 15 years from now, in which people can live beyond their corporeal bodies by uploading their consciousness into a visual afterworld. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 31 Mar. 2022 On Maui’s west coast is a massive volcanic outcropping called Black Rock, where spirits of the recently deceased are said to leap into the afterworld to join their ancestors. Washington Post, 30 July 2021 Some tombs at Hegra are the final resting places for high-ranking officers and their families, who, according to the writing on their tombs, took the adopted Roman military titles of prefect and centurion to the afterworld with them. Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020 See all Example Sentences for afterworld 
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Noun
  • When the portals to the otherworld were most accessible.
    Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • His former partner, Jacob Marley, is suffering in his afterlife for corresponding avarice.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The afterlife visions that Lucius experiences are as aesthetically distinct as the ones in the original film, but rendered in high-contrast black and white, setting them apart.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp) — In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
  • His talent for pointing a camera in the right direction at the right time suggests the secret to immortality isn’t found in the fountain of youth.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024

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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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