perpetuity
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While the company will “struggle to grow,” the current stock price implies that its business shrinks 5% each year in perpetuity, he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he said in 2024.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We give $2.5 million a year in perpetuity to the University of California, so that all California Indians can go to the University of California tuition-free.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Bob’s move signals he’ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
These trusts are often formed in U.S. states—such as South Dakota—that have suspended or altered their state "rule against perpetuities," legislation that previously limited the lifespan of a trust.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021
“No more questions. I didn’t understand perpetuities in law school, and I don’t want to understand it now,” he said, laughing.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
He says that his insistence on perpetuity is “appropriate”—but perpetuities are never appropriate.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015
Where be the shrines that were erected in this church and that chappell for perpetuities of his name and fame?
From Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed
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Vocabulary from the Magna Carta on its 800th Anniversary
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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