in perpetuity
idiom
formal
: for all time : forever
The land will be passed on from generation to generation in perpetuity.
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Unlike other areas of Mexico's coastline, ripe for new resorts, Celestún's surroundings are largely protected in perpetuity, meaning this paradise won't be changing any time soon.
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
To guarantee their rule in perpetuity, pro-slavery Southerners wielded federal authority against their opponents and brazenly attacked any institution, law, practice, or norm that did not serve their purposes.
—Time, 5 Sep. 2025
For someone to assume that, because they have been invited one year, they are entitled to celebrate with you in perpetuity is presumptuous.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
But the ability to harass Israel and lob rockets at it in perpetuity has never been Iran’s main use of the group.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
To guarantee their rule in perpetuity, pro-slavery Southerners wielded federal authority against their opponents and brazenly attacked any institution, law, practice, or norm that did not serve their purposes.
—Time, 5 Sep. 2025
For someone to assume that, because they have been invited one year, they are entitled to celebrate with you in perpetuity is presumptuous.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
But the ability to harass Israel and lob rockets at it in perpetuity has never been Iran’s main use of the group.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in perpetuity
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“In perpetuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20perpetuity. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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