perpetuity

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These little excisions from reality - or "perpetuity edits," a kind of George Orwell speak - see them remove from the world anything they don't like.

From BBC

Such clauses have been employed for centuries as a workaround for restrictions on agreements in perpetuity.

From Washington Post

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

“It’s documenting a huge burden and impact. 10,000 people were forced to take a path they didn’t want, and that has impacts on every aspect of their life in perpetuity.”

From Scientific American

The theme was simple, but subversive in a culture that idealizes the notion of a spouse who fulfills all your emotional, intellectual and sexual needs in perpetuity.

From New York Times