perpetuity
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While the company will “struggle to grow,” the current stock price implies that its business shrinks 5% each year in perpetuity, he added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he said in 2024.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Bob’s move signals he’ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
But his inquiry illuminates one possible pathway through the mirrored hallways where history and myth reflect and distort each other in seeming perpetuity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Johnson describes her actions during the war, but also details all the things Joey did for the patients at Tala, documenting it for perpetuity in the Congressional Record.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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That said, the law tends to frown on perpetuities as well as on legislative acts that bind future legislatures, except through constitutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
States began doing away with a centuries-old legal concept known as the "rule against perpetuities."
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021
“No more questions. I didn’t understand perpetuities in law school, and I don’t want to understand it now,” he said, laughing.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
That’s a hell of a lot better than you see at most foundations, which tend to be set up as perpetuities that give out the bare minimum of 5 percent of their assets each year.
From Slate ● May 11, 2018
Some had leases for thirty-one years or three lives, and there were some perpetuities.
From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James
Vocabulary lists containing perpetuity
Vocabulary from the Magna Carta on its 800th Anniversary
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"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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