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indefinite

[in-def-uh-nit] / ɪnˈdɛf ə nɪt /


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The protests gained global attention after activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk joined them on 28 June and began an indefinite hunger strike in support of their demands.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

“Their disqualification from categorization as futures contracts on the basis of their indefinite duration cuts directly against established precedent,” Kalshi told the CFTC.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

However, combining the nanoparticles with an immune checkpoint blockade therapy produced complete or nearly complete remissions and indefinite survival in four out of ten mice.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Its most notorious prison has become "a legal black hole", Nguyen said, where deportees face indefinite detention with no access to lawyers, despite an Eswatini supreme court ruling that they were entitled to legal representation.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

And yet, positively: The ability to consider experience so abstractly allowed me to shape into desire what would otherwise have remained indefinite, meaningless longing in the British Museum.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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