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Recent Examples of afterworld
If my father's spirit wants to talk to me from the afterworld, then his spirit will have to be the one that reaches out.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
For example, such possessions might have been buried with an individual for use in the afterworld.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
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.
—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
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
For example, such possessions might have been buried with an individual for use in the afterworld.
—Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
Noun
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Trapped in this otherworld, the only way out is to keep the story moving forward until the end credits roll.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22) Connecting with the otherworld?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ending the show in the afterlife feels a little like cheating.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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The Mormon Church teaches that ancestors are reunited in the afterlife.—
Barbara Demick,
New Yorker,
23 May 2025
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In his new book, More Everything Forever, the science journalist Adam Becker offers a deep dive into the worldview of techno-utopians such as Musk—one that’s underpinned by promises of AI dominance, space colonization, boundless economic growth, and eventually, immortality.—
John Kaag,
The Atlantic,
28 May 2025
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Searching for immortality has been rich creative pickings for thousands of years, from Dracula and Peter Pan to the Holy Grail and the philosopher’s stone, and onward to modern times with Cocoon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2025
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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