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
“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
It was his job to set the memory in perpetuity.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
That might violate a legal principle known as the rule against perpetuities, a question on which I gather is a fixture on bar exams the world over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
States began doing away with a centuries-old legal concept known as the "rule against perpetuities."
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 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
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
This evil was remedied first by making the leases renewable, on the payment of fines, and, in our own time, an act was passed enabling the tenants to convert their leaseholds into 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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