as in endless
lasting forever
the writer's latest memoir is a seemingly unending exercise in narcissistic rambling
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Recent Examples of unending
Each novel glimpse into the cosmic abyss continues our unending pursuit of knowledge.
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Big Think, 23 Mar. 2026
The town’s population was plummeting and Hermon says that watching his friends go without him would have felt like abandonment, leaving him only with an unending future in the army to contemplate.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people in many, many countries.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2026
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
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Big Think, 23 Mar. 2026
The town’s population was plummeting and Hermon says that watching his friends go without him would have felt like abandonment, leaving him only with an unending future in the army to contemplate.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people in many, many countries.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2026
For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted Death to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.
—ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unending
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Boullet’s Poe is, unfortunately, even worse, just the latest in an apparently endless string of prestige cable teens who exist only to be placed in inopportune jeopardy.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Apr. 2026
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Pierre’s Jewish identity is heavily emphasized through what Claude calls his endless stock of stories.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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Lady Bunny, the drag queen comedian whose legacy extends back to the early 1980s, carries an eternal summer vibe due to her founding of the historic Wigstock Festival, a drag celebration which happened every year from 1985 to 2005.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2026
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Finishing School is a column in which Mary Norris, The New Yorker’s Comma Queen, asks the eternal questions—Are you supposed to take the toothpick out of the sandwich or eat around it?—
Mary Norris,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
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This final season has gone back and forth, introducing a virus that could kill all the supes and then destroying the Boys’ cache of it, then introducing a Vought formula that makes supes immortal and giving it to Homelander.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
29 Apr. 2026
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In this week’s episode ‘One-Shots’, Soldier Boy and Homelander (Antony Starr) visit The Seven alum Marathon Man (Padalecki) to obtain some V1, which will make Homelander immortal amid Billy Butcher’s (Karl Urban) plan to wipe out all Supes with a deadly virus.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Unending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unending. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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