perpetuity
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“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he said in 2024.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We give $2.5 million a year in perpetuity to the University of California, so that all California Indians can go to the University of California tuition-free.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Bob’s move signals he’ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
"On paper, this was another thunderclap quarter. And yet the stock dipped. The market is no longer pricing growth. It is pricing perpetuity."
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
And if it can’t end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem’s platoon.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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
These trusts are often formed in U.S. states—such as South Dakota—that have suspended or altered their state "rule against perpetuities," legislation that previously limited the lifespan of a trust.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2021
In 1983, he abolished the rule against perpetuities and, from that moment on, property placed in trust in South Dakota would stay there for ever.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2019
He says that his insistence on perpetuity is “appropriate”—but perpetuities are never appropriate.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2015
The rule against perpetuities, 4th ed. edited by Roland Gray. © 22May42; A164345.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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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