ad nauseam

[ad naw-zee-uhm, -am] / æd ˈnɔ zi əm, -ˌæm /

ADVERB

to a sickening degree

Synonyms

WEAK

at length boringly endlessly in detail lengthily long-windedly more than one can stomach repeatedly repetitively to an excessive degree to nauseating extremes to the point of queasiness too much

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So Brown scrapped his normally free-flowing offense to run one play ad nauseam.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

“We have written ad nauseam about how extreme the move in semis has been—in many cases not seen since the dot-com bubble,” writes Jonathan Krinsky, BTIG’s chief market technician.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Ohtani’s penchant for delivering on command is something that has been discussed ad nauseam — I wrote about it again after Ohtani homered in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants four days earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

As we've been told ad nauseam, Vance is a smart guy who went to Yale.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024

In Levene’s mind, the four bases were repeated in a defined order: AGCT-AGCT-AGCT-AGCT and so forth ad nauseam.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

ad nauseam

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