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ad infinitum

American  
[ad in-fuh-nahy-tuhm, adin-] / æd ˌɪn fəˈnaɪ təm, ˌædɪn- /

adverb

  1. to infinity; endlessly; without limit. ad inf., ad infin


ad infinitum British  
/ æd ˌɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm /

adverb

  1.  ad inf.  without end; endlessly; to infinity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ad infinitum

From Latin

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One takes place and then another one occurs ad infinitum.

From Salon Mar. 18, 2024

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

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

Depending on the initial placement of the constituent cells, their clusters can showcase surprisingly complex behaviors such as self-replication ad infinitum.

From Scientific American Apr. 6, 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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