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as in perpetuity
endless time
the question whether the universe will end someday or continue to exist in eternity
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as in immortality
unending existence after death
a firm belief in the eternity of the soul
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as in forever
a long or seemingly long period of time
we waited in line for tickets for an eternity
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Recent Examples of eternity
For the first time in what feels like an eternity, there’s a single gameweek — not a double — on the cards in Fantasy Premier League.
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Ben Dinnery, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
After what felt like an eternity of sour, downtempo bedroom pop, the charts are finally bright again.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2025
The next few seconds stretched like an eternity as a translator related the exchange to the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, in Japanese.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
During exhaustive arguments over jury instructions in early January, attorneys had spent what seemed like an eternity discussing whether one small phrase amid the 100-plus pages of instructions should be a single or double quote.
—Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
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Ben Dinnery, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
After what felt like an eternity of sour, downtempo bedroom pop, the charts are finally bright again.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2025
The next few seconds stretched like an eternity as a translator related the exchange to the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, in Japanese.
—Shawn McCreesh, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
During exhaustive arguments over jury instructions in early January, attorneys had spent what seemed like an eternity discussing whether one small phrase amid the 100-plus pages of instructions should be a single or double quote.
—Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for eternity
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
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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
Noun
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One way to mess with an option team’s Plan A is to not only stick them with third-and-forevers, but to put them in an early hole, making them throw out of desperation.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2019
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Printed with thermochromic ink, the stamp reveals a second image of the moon when a finger is pressed to it, and a sheet of 16 Forever stamps features a map of the eclipse path.—
Meg Jones,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2017
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Click on the video below to see their sweet interaction that’s truly going to infinity and beyond!—
Ronnie Li,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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There's also a Focus Limiter that restricts the autofocus to either close (minimum distance to 10 meters) or distant (8 meters to infinity) and has a Full setting for unrestricted autofocus.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Eternity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eternity. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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