as in eternity
unending existence after death central to most religions is a belief in the immortality of the soul

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Recent Examples of immortality Biggs’s audience has the same emotional bath, a bath that lays claim to immortality, that Christians have on Easter morning. Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 And in the simple act of scaring people out of the water, Jaws achieved a kind of immortality that few movies ever do. Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025 Throw in the stakes — the lure of golf immortality (or at the very least, a healthy paycheck for making the cut) for the pros and the walk of a lifetime for amateurs like dentist turned qualifier Matt Vogt — and yeah, things can drag on a bit. Will Graves, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2025 What began in the 1990s as a natural, root-cause approach to more accessible health has been adopted by wealthy biohackers chasing immortality through full-body MRIs and cryotherapy. Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for immortality
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eternity
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  • That must seem like an eternity for millions of sleepless Ukrainians now enduring an escalating Russian onslaught of deadly missile and mass drone strikes on their towns and cities.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
  • That all takes time — which, for a truck idling in the middle of traffic during the morning rush hour in Manhattan, can feel like an eternity.
    John Surico, Curbed, 9 July 2025

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“Immortality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immortality. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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