afterlife
Americannoun
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Also called future life. life after death.
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the later part of a person's life.
the remarkably productive afterlife of Thomas Jefferson.
noun
Etymology
Origin of afterlife
Example Sentences
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A GoFundMe campaign was launched Friday by Young on behalf of Lueders’ “mother Wendy and girlfriend Taylor to help cover the costs of both afterlife & memorial services in Chicago.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
In Dyersville: For the movie “Field of Dreams,” starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, a cornfield is turned into a ballfield for a story about baseball players in the afterlife.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
"People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife," she wrote.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
Other times, such as the surreal world of the donkey afterlife, I thought of the colorfully unpredictable universe of the music-focused game “The Artful Escape,” a quest for personal identity and self-actualization.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
Adina relaxed, reasoning that she had to be alive, unless the afterlife was a lot more bipolar than she’d been led to believe.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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