unending

adjective

un·​end·​ing ˌən-ˈen-diŋ How to pronounce unending (audio)
: never ending : endless
unendingly adverb

Examples of unending in a Sentence

the writer's latest memoir is a seemingly unending exercise in narcissistic rambling
Recent Examples on the Web Over the past year, several institutions such as the Green Bay Correctional Institution and Waupun Correctional Institution have been under unending lockdowns, limiting the movements of those incarcerated, depriving them of recreational time and requiring them to take meals inside their cells. Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024 In the present life as a public interment ground, Wilmington Cemetery ticked all the check marks of far too many historic cemeteries in need of remedial care: neglect as families died off or departed, poor management and even poorer maintenance, an unending series of owners. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024 The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble. Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024 In the business world, there seems to be an unending conversation about how to squeeze the most profit out of each company. Nick Leighton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 Washington’s reliance on the idea that good judgment will prevail over tensions may instead invite an unending series of intense crises. Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2024 The lavish funding persists despite the absence of any audit of Pentagon spending and an unending series of calamitous interventions. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024 There’d be a brief silence, before all the voices flooded in and the whole circle would catch fire like an unending wall of the most resounding hallelujah imaginable. Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024 Evgenia had just testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission, a bipartisan congressional committee, about an unending crisis of her own: Her husband, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a personal enemy of the Kremlin, is among the most prominent inmates in Russia’s penal system. Linda Kinstler, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1661, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unending was in 1661

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“Unending.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unending. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

unending

adjective
un·​end·​ing ˌən-ˈen-diŋ How to pronounce unending (audio)
ˈən-
: having no ending : endless
unendingly adverb

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