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perpetual

[per-pech-oo-uhl] / pərˈpɛtʃ u əl /


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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

The consortium that is buying the business includes Blackstone’s perpetual private equity fund, Germany-based venture-capital company Bolt Ventures and Indian companies Aditya Birla Group and The Times of India Group, Diageo said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

While we continue to see great merit in letting more information flow into the market before making decisions, we also recognize that many investors are addicted to perpetual motion.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

He glances at Ms. Lionel at the library desk, and she looks up at that moment, her face in its typical pose: angled, with one eyebrow raised in perpetual curiosity.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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