ad infinitum
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of ad infinitum
From Latin
Example Sentences
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But is it the best way to spent $600 million–plus in taxpayer dollars, every year, ad infinitum?
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2025
Thorvaldsdottir, in a mode characteristically abstract yet suggestive, could prolong an idea like this ad infinitum.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023
It looked like it would go on that way ad infinitum.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 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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