eternally
Americanadverb
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in a way that is ceaseless, endless, or perpetual.
We call on all citizens to be eternally vigilant in ensuring that human rights are protected and sustained.
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in a way that is enduring and unchanging.
The couple is eternally grateful for the support shown by their community.
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Metaphysics. in a way that exists outside of time, without beginning or end.
I worry I will be eternally tormented in hell, or at the very least punished severely here on earth.
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The Order: The Eggything Bagel sees an extra-rich egg bagel topped with the eternally popular everything spice blend.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Barcelona's eternally unfinished Sagrada Familia has grown to become the world's tallest church, but a conflict with residents threatens to delay the finish date for the monument designed over 140 years ago.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
They are eternally simply themselves, grasped in a minute.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026
A mockingbird trilled a note from where it perched upon the hand of the moonlit Founder, flipping its moon-mad tail above the head of the eternally kneeling slave.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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