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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
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They were used primarily as burial monuments or memorials and symbolized the journey to the afterlife, given that ships were considered vessels for transporting the dead into the next world.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Art is also a central conduit between life and the afterlife in Buddhist cultures.Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
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After all, desperate dreams of youth, beauty and immortality are forever favorites.Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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After the tortures, he is sentenced to death, but no one can strangle his immortality.Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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