eternal
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“People associate that sense of permanence with a divine quality and a metaphor for things that are eternal, like love between people, devotion to a deity and political power.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It is worth repeating that the past behavior of markets does not show what markets will do in the future, let alone what markets “do” in some kind of generalized eternal present.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026
Showered with honors and tributes, he had begun to seem eternal, a cultural constant.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Sean Penn, Hollywood's eternal rebel, on Sunday won a third Oscar for his comic yet terrifying portrayal of an absurdly uptight soldier ashamed of his past in "One Battle After Another."
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
Oh, it’s so hard, the eternal struggle between heart and mind.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing eternal
Ides, Eon, Epoch, and Era: Time-related Words
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"Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle
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