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ad-infinitum

[ad in-fuh-nahy-tuhm, adin-] / æd ˌɪn fəˈnaɪ təm, ˌædɪn- /


ad infinitum
ADJECTIVE
neverending
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Film, he did, ad infinitum, particularly enjoying the spy genre in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” which garnered him his first Oscar nomination as lead actor in 2012, long before Jackson Lamb appeared on his radar.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2025

Scientists don’t currently know whether that expansion will continue indefinitely or, if so, whether it will keep accelerating ad infinitum.

From Scientific American • Aug. 29, 2023

Legal microdirectives sent en masse for countless scenarios, each representing authoritative legal findings formulated by opaque computational processes, could create an expansive and increasingly complex body of law that would grow ad infinitum.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2023

It looked like it would go on that way ad infinitum.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2023

Flies with heads and tails make eggs with heads and tails, which make embryos with heads and tails, which grow into flies with heads and tails, and so forth, ad infinitum.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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