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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
Noun
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When the portals to the otherworld were most accessible.—
Mira Ptacin,
Vogue,
3 Nov. 2023
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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
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Jamil starred alongside Kristen Bell, Manny Jacinto, William Jackson Harper and Ted Danson as their characters navigated the afterlife.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ancient Egyptians believed in the afterlife and developed elaborate burial practices to ensure a smooth transition to the next world.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Finally, for some, this technology may provide a type of immortality.—
Dr. Jonathan Reichental,
Forbes,
10 Mar. 2025
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The high point of Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho’s bitterly funny follow-up to his Oscar-winning Parasite, is a prolonged sequence in which the title character, a hapless schlub played by Robert Pattinson, explains how his life became a hellscape of technologically enabled immortality.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2025
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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