perpetuity

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"On paper, this was another thunderclap quarter. And yet the stock dipped. The market is no longer pricing growth. It is pricing perpetuity."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

The grandmotherly driving of today’s Waymos conjures images of two, excessively polite Midwesterners locked at an intersection, each beckoning the other to go first, back and forth in perpetuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

He could do this because while the government owns the building, the Catholic Church has a right to use it in perpetuity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Burial plots are leased for a fixed term, or in perpetuity.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

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