ad infinitum
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of ad infinitum
From Latin
Example Sentences
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It felt like a glimpse of one plausible, fast-arriving future: generative AI products reviewing other generative AI products ad infinitum — bad AI content all the way down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Scientists don’t currently know whether that expansion will continue indefinitely or, if so, whether it will keep accelerating ad infinitum.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023
Legal microdirectives sent en masse for countless scenarios, each representing authoritative legal findings formulated by opaque computational processes, could create an expansive and increasingly complex body of law that would grow ad infinitum.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2023
Thorvaldsdottir, in a mode characteristically abstract yet suggestive, could prolong an idea like this ad infinitum.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
Flies with heads and tails make eggs with heads and tails, which make embryos with heads and tails, which grow into flies with heads and tails, and so forth, ad infinitum.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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