1
as in ancient
dating or surviving from the distant past
dateless artifacts left by an obscure people of the distant past
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as in eternal
lasting forever
the dateless cycle of the seasons
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as in immortal
having an existence or validity that does not change or diminish
it is because of their dateless themes that the plays of Shakespeare are still performed today
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Recent Examples of dateless
Her theory about dateless, spiraling young men ends with home prices declining for years, or even decades.
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Byalena Botros, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
All my Cinderellas didn’t find their March romance and went home dateless for the second weekend.
—J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
Dreams are usually dateless, absent from the illusion of the flow of time.
—Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
Byalena Botros, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
All my Cinderellas didn’t find their March romance and went home dateless for the second weekend.
—J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
Dreams are usually dateless, absent from the illusion of the flow of time.
—Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dateless
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Perseverance discovered this rock on March 11 on the rim of the Jezero Crater, an ancient lakebed that the rover has been exploring since 2021 for signs of past microbial life.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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In Live Fruit Flies By Ian Randall Deputy Science Editor Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member news article 0 Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained its prey using its Venus flytrap-like abdomen before laying eggs in the victim.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Ultimately the sentimentalists could no longer withstand the weight of modern football expectation, so Highbury remains a place to visit in its new residential form with your eyes half closed — and an eternal bank of memories.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The man who is arguably the most famous or legendary keyboard sideman in rock talked with Variety about the circumstances of his new album, his current west coast tour (with more dates to be added further east) and his eternal eagerness to salute his forebears.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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Each time he’s killed testing the alien atmosphere for viruses or absorbing massive amounts of radiation on a space walk, he’s resurrected in a printing machine in what amounts to a hilariously terrible immortal drudgery.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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In subsequent retcons and embellishments over the years, before the Big Bang occurred for the seventh round, Galan was infused with the glowing omnipotent essence of the Sentience of the Cosmos to become the immortal being Galactus.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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Truth be told, as welcome as the choice was to fans as a relative novelty, that opener was not one of the better selections of the night; their arrangement felt relatively sluggish, compared to probably any other version of the venerable rock standard any audience member has heard over the years.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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On stage at Chicago Shakespeare’s Yard theater, the familiar iconography of the jukebox musical, a venerable Anglo-American genre, is being rehearsed.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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The scenarios are endless, each rife with long-lasting consequences.—
Dan Duggan,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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In the portraits, solitary young women and an androgynous boy, all unconventional beauties, emerge from spaces that feel not just empty but endless: a seductive void.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
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But the episode left an enduring mark on Bezos, the Amazon founder and the world’s second-richest person.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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Both the novel and the movie became part of an enduring pop culture lexicon in which any raving dog can be referred to a Cujo.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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Nearby in the tiny, no-stoplight community of Leslie, Arkansas, which gets water from the Ozark system, the only dentist in town operates out of a one-man clinic tucked in the back of an antique store.—
Brett Kelman,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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Fluted glass, marble, and antique brass are key elements, but crucially, Medea 1905 is offering customizable details, so the rattan bedhead could be replaced with oak wood, perhaps, or linen.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
29 Mar. 2025
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Boredom with everything: his antics, his non-music tweets, and the perpetual discourse cycle.—
Jayson Buford,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2025
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Houston and Atlanta have been getting much of the buzz whenever the subject of the NHL expanding to 34 teams comes about, but Quebec City is the perpetual bridesmaid in this courtship.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Dateless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dateless. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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