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afterlife

[af-ter-lahyf, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌlaɪf, ˈɑf- /


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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

Poor Sylvia Plath has found little rest in the afterlife.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 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

But few shows have had a longer afterlife, nor left a deeper impact on viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

But even so, the afterlife mattered to me.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green