ad infinitum

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But is it the best way to spent $600 million–plus in taxpayer dollars, every year, ad infinitum?

From Slate • Jul. 8, 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

For institutions like the news media, bad habits die again and again and again ad infinitum until the lesson is learned too late.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2023

Having no fixed shape and no set boundary, an infinity puzzle can be assembled and reassembled in numerous ways, seemingly ad infinitum.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

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