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eternity

[ih-tur-ni-tee] / ɪˈtɜr nɪ ti /


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Maiava’s average time to throw while under pressure so far this season is nearly four seconds, which, by Big Ten standards, is an eternity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Admittedly this one is special: We already know the public is going to question every last-second play in every clock sport for eternity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"The summer has been without a big action title for nine weeks -- an eternity at the box office. The market is ripe-ripe-ripe for this film."

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Even though the past five weeks have flown by, the beginning of this World Cup feels like it was an eternity ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

He could imagine what it would be like, getting hungrier and hungrier for eternity but never being able to eat.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

I think back on how those long, slow last days with Tessa, free from distractions at work or worry about bills, seemed to last eternities.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021

Chidi and Eleanor had eternities on end together, but when Chidi traded his philosophy texts for a copy of The Da Vinci Code, it was clear that his end, at least, was nigh.

From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2020

In Brandon, for eternities, they’ll fondly remember his varsity debut against Petal.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

Nabokov wrote: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

From New York Times ● May 1, 2016

Many if not most tlamatinime saw existence as Nabokov feared: “a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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