ad infinitum
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of ad infinitum
From Latin
Example Sentences
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The stakes of the strike even extend to who owns an actor’s literal body and voice, as technology now allows an actor’s image to be digitally repurposed ad infinitum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023
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
It looked like it would go on that way ad infinitum.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 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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