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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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So do the men in Shula’s family, who keep to the periphery of the film but still manage to exert their will (an extension of the pall that Uncle Fred manages to cast over this story from the afterlife).—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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This version is understated and plays perfectly into the poignancy behind the possibility that Teri might be among the living and not in the afterlife.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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For William Mair, professor of molecular metabolism at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, talk about immortality or radical life extension has a clear opportunity cost.—
Arianna Huffington,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Kahlo's work and the love of her fans has, in a sense, given the Mexican artist immortality.—
Tasha Tsiaperas,
Axios,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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