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Nearly 2000 years ago, the empire of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica embraced the symbolic centrality of snakes in creation myths, both revered and feared for their ability to traverse the boundaries between the natural world and the afterworld.
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2023
In the two-hour, 20-minute piece, Kahlo is summoned from the afterworld in 1957 by her dying husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who wants to see her once again on Dia de los Muertos, Mexico’s Day of the Dead, when souls can return to the living world for 24 hours each Nov. 1.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
These attitudes slowly shifted around 2000 B.C., when commoners were also granted access to the afterworld as long as their body was mummified, and their valuables were placed into the tomb.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for afterworld
Noun
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As a pure visual experience, the horror film is a genuine triumph, with production design that pulls you fully into the town’s horrific otherworld.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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In Mother of God, the reader is rooted in the material world, a world of objects, but there’s also a supernatural otherworld.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
23 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Historians believe they were meant to ensure his financial stability in the afterlife.—
Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Digital Project’s afterlife was largely absorbed into the world of building information modeling (BIM), construction management, and efficiency optimization.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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Duke's Cayden Boozer committed a surprising turnover with six seconds left to give UConn's Braylon Mullins a shot at UConn immortality.—
Megan Armstrong,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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What sets them apart is, in exchange for yearly sacrifices in the form of new hires who seem like they won’t be missed, the Virgil’s inhabitants have been granted a conditional immortality that makes the film’s action sequences more fun for a while and then more tedious.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Afterworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterworld. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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