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perpetual

[per-pech-oo-uhl] / pərˈpɛtʃ u əl /


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Consider that the single-largest perpetual private-credit fund has to deploy roughly $43 billion a year just to stay invested — more than a quarter of the entire U.S. annual direct lending market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

The Pirates have been a perpetual laughingstock ever since Barry Bonds ditched the Allegheny for the San Francisco Bay after leading Pittsburgh to the National League Championship Series in 1992.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

However, large perpetual BDC managers will likely be able to meet this demand, with restrictions imposed into the foreseeable future.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

If most almanacs were designed to last only for a year, even a perpetual almanac would soon become grubby and dog-eared.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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