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
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To minimize the unending fusillade of Trump’s first weeks in office, to choose to turn away, to shut off the news, is to indulge in self-soothing. David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025 Wells may have been right about the unending demands of freedom. Amy Gais / Made By History, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025 In a nation struggling with an unending succession of school shootings, the Santa Fe suit was part of an expanding effort to hold the parents of the perpetrators responsible. J. David Goodman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025 Momentum and energy were just the first of an unending list of conservation laws, each building on the previous one. Quanta Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unending

Word History

First Known Use

1661, in the meaning defined above

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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 12 Mar. 2025.

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unending

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

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