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perpetually

[per-pech-oo-uh-lee]

adverb

  1. forever or for an indefinitely long time.

    It is best to think of any software licensed in this way as perpetually licensed.

    We seem to be locked perpetually in the past.

  2. without intermission or interruption; continually.

    The library received five more laptops to relieve the pressure on their perpetually busy media loan desk.

  3. with continued recurrence; regularly or repeatedly: I'm the girl who loses pens constantly, forgets about quizzes in math, and is perpetually late.

    The city’s public schools, particularly in working-class neighborhoods, are perpetually understaffed.

    I'm the girl who loses pens constantly, forgets about quizzes in math, and is perpetually late.



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Other Word Forms

  • nonperpetually adverb
  • quasi-perpetually adverb
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In all, to be so perpetually overwhelmed and disoriented is a choice at this point in the long Age of Trump.

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Unsurprisingly, while recommending other women stay perpetually pregnant for their "health," Means appears to have no children.

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One of the world's most endangered amphibians - the strange, perpetually smiling Mexican axolotl - has thrived after being released in artificial wetlands, scientists have discovered.

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“Here you go, Jimmy — I made your Legos cost 30% more, so you can grow up strong, patriotic and perpetually broke.”

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The version they dreamed up — alongside Perez — was a series that uses each episode to tackle a different Hollywood mini-issue through the eyes of the perpetually stressed Matt.

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