perpetual

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Hughes is the NHL’s perpetual motion machine, the defenseman who never stops skating.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Consider that the single-largest perpetual private-credit fund has to deploy roughly $43 billion a year just to stay invested — more than a quarter of the entire U.S. annual direct lending market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The much harder work is getting out of survival mode — the all-consuming pressures of eternal presentism and perpetual crisis — and into a mode and discipline of building what comes after.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

There were roughly $138 billion worth of perpetual BDC net assets as of the fourth quarter.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

His intellect was a sparse acreage indeed but Pinkie got along by wearing a perpetual smile on his face and having an uncanny knack for repairing the engines of his teachers’ automobiles.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy