as in eternity
endless time
lands that should remain in their wild state in perpetuity
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Recent Examples of perpetuity
Stargate, the $500 billion effort to secure American AI supremacy for perpetuity backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank founder Masa Son, among others, will require a gargantuan amount of energy to power it.
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David Jeans, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
Even that wouldn’t be enough to guarantee a new Broncos stadium would stand in reasonable perpetuity like Coors Field in LoDo.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
Looking towards the future, both Calla and Mitchell expressed their desire to keep the MAAs going into perpetuity.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
But not everyone is sold on MACH principles for all perpetuity.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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David Jeans, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
Even that wouldn’t be enough to guarantee a new Broncos stadium would stand in reasonable perpetuity like Coors Field in LoDo.
—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 6 Jan. 2025
Looking towards the future, both Calla and Mitchell expressed their desire to keep the MAAs going into perpetuity.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
But not everyone is sold on MACH principles for all perpetuity.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for perpetuity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perpetuity
Noun
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That must seem like an eternity for millions of sleepless Ukrainians now enduring an escalating Russian onslaught of deadly missile and mass drone strikes on their towns and cities.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
15 July 2025
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That all takes time — which, for a truck idling in the middle of traffic during the morning rush hour in Manhattan, can feel like an eternity.—
John Surico,
Curbed,
9 July 2025
Noun
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The 90mm Macro is not ideal for rack focus video shots, however, as its optics exhibit significant focus breathing because the lens's angle of view is far narrower when focused on a near subject versus one that's far off toward infinity.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
11 Dec. 2024
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Furthermore, parabolas and hyperbolas are equivalent to ellipses, with the addition of one or two points at infinity, respectively.—
Richard Jensen,
Scientific American,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Nowadays, the outdoors with all its foreverness and fresh air is becoming that go-to place to celebrate our upcoming holidays.—
Marni Jameson,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Nov. 2020
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Nowadays, the outdoors with all its foreverness and fresh air is becoming that go-to place to celebrate our upcoming holidays.—
Marni Jameson,
orlandosentinel.com,
20 Nov. 2020
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“Perpetuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perpetuity. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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