unending

adjective

ˌən-ˈen-diŋ How to pronounce unending (audio)
Definition of unendingnext
as in endless
lasting forever the writer's latest memoir is a seemingly unending exercise in narcissistic rambling

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Recent Examples of unending To minimize the unending fusillade of Trump’s first weeks in office, to choose to turn away, to shut off the news, is to indulge in self-soothing. — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025 Wells may have been right about the unending demands of freedom. — Amy Gais / Made By History, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025 In a nation struggling with an unending succession of school shootings, the Santa Fe suit was part of an expanding effort to hold the parents of the perpetrators responsible. — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025 Momentum and energy were just the first of an unending list of conservation laws, each building on the previous one. — Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unending
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unending
  1. endless
  2. eternal
  3. immortal
Adjective
  • The scenarios are endless, each rife with long-lasting consequences.
    — Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Definition of endless
Adjective
  • We can all be seduced by the prospect of eternal life and beauty.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The plot-free hangout flick quietly has a ton to say about baseball’s eternal appeal, even as the sport weathers the passage of time.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of eternal
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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
  • 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
Definition of immortal

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