Definition of ETERNAL

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective That’s why Entertainment Weekly’s editors team up each day to answer the eternal question of What to Watch with our daily podcast and articles. — Ew Staff, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021 Their love appears to be eternal until a fate fractures their happiness. — Keyaira Boone, Essence, 17 Sep. 2021 In a rare-feeling piece of good news, the show was picked up for a second season this week, posing one eternal question: Who should appear on the next installment of The White Lotus? — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2021 That’s the eternal question for his 160 employees at Bitmovin, a company that has now earned an international reputation as a leader in the research and development of the digital metrics used to maximize video quality. — Travis Bean, Forbes, 11 June 2021 There is also the eternal question of how ordinary people will behave in a disaster. — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2021 Because the eternal question of whether Tech’s defense will be good enough has become a cliché. — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2021 Steam can answer the eternal question about keyboard vs. controller for PC games, too. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 13 Jan. 2021 At the graveside, a priest prayed for eternal rest. — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But just like every team in the NFL, hope springs eternal in Week 1. — David Moore, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2021 His eternal cant of smug victimhood — the one sane man in a sea of ignorance, rejected by his own community and harassed by the mainstream media — was more believable when Richard Nixon was doing it. — Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021 Hope springs eternal for the Tigers because of the prospects in their minor league system. — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2021 Green shoots of hope reign eternal for both seagrass and sea cow, among those who study and love them most. — Jim Waymer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2021 Hope springs eternal for Elmer Fudd come rabbit season! — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021 Like last March, frustration has grown in the absence of any resolution, but for Turell, the team, and its supporters, their faith is more cemented in the eternal. — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021 Because of that, and because many of these species live in hard-to-survey regions, many of the announcements this past year declared species possibly or probably lost, a sign that hope springs eternal. — John R. Platt, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2021 The old saying is: Hope springs eternal, and that has never been more important for the Avon Lake City Schools, students, staff, and our community. — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2020

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