perpetuity
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Having one major backer in perpetuity hadn’t been the original plan, CZI said, but rather a model that “could be sustained through primarily public investment.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he said in 2024.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
As much as the movie frets about kids with a death-grip on their technological addiction, it also wants to play in perpetuity on millions of streaming devices, including an officially licensed “Toy Story”-branded tablet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Bob’s move signals he’ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
And if it can’t end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem’s platoon.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
That might violate a legal principle known as the rule against perpetuities, a question on which I gather is a fixture on bar exams the world over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
Actions could include the passage of a federal "rule against perpetuities," banning certain trust arrangements, and taxing income and wealth in trusts.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021
In 1983, he abolished the rule against perpetuities and, from that moment on, property placed in trust in South Dakota would stay there for ever.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
That’s a hell of a lot better than you see at most foundations, which tend to be set up as perpetuities that give out the bare minimum of 5 percent of their assets each year.
From Slate ● May 11, 2018
For instance, what is a reasonable time for presenting negotiable paper, or what is a difference in kind and what a difference only in quality, or the rule against perpetuities.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Vocabulary lists containing perpetuity
Vocabulary from the Magna Carta on its 800th Anniversary
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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