ad infinitum

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A long game of phone tag ensued with assistant reaching out to assistant ad infinitum until eventually Cooper was contacted and he happened to be nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 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

For institutions like the news media, bad habits die again and again and again ad infinitum until the lesson is learned too late.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 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