Seth Shostak

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.

American Scientist

Harshvardhan Rane

I am a very big admirer of Bejoy's films and have waited for five months to be part of his film. But I have no regrets and will wait for an indefinite time as, if I love and believe in something, I do it completely and unconditionally.

Indian Actor

Hannes Alfven

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Swedish Scientist

Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

British Statesman

Claire Fox

Retreating to indefinite lockdown culture would mean surrendering what makes life worth living, a far more tragic cost than anything inflicted by a virus.

British Writer

Julia Davis

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

English Comedian

Pema Chodron

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.

American Clergyman

Suze Orman

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.

American Author

Eduard Shevardnadze

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

Politician

Arthur Conan Doyle

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Use 'indefinite' when the length of time for an event is unknown.

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Unspecific Plans

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'Indefinite' in math refers to quantities or values that are not exactly known.

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In mathematics, use 'indefinite' when precise boundaries aren't set.

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'Indefinite' can imply that an arrangement is not fixed and could change.

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 canals and irrigating large swaths of land and the way that water rights work is whoever is the first to put water to a beneficial use will establish an indefinite right and so the upper basin states of Utah and Colorado were looking at the growth and development that was happening in California and they said to

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 to try to intimidate lawmakers into keeping him or her in power. Or they could just abuse their emergency powers and try to stay in office indefinitely. So we've got some real problems in our system. The best way to stop a coup is to update and strengthen our democratic system as soon as this election is over.

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 then we are condemning a whole cohort of people -- who would have been young enough and healthy enough to benefit from those therapies, but will not be, because we haven't developed them as quickly as we could -- we'll be denying those people an indefinite life span, and I consider that that is immoral.

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 And that's what was happening to us. The game was helping us experience what scientists call post-traumatic growth, which is not something we usually hear about. We usually hear about post-traumatic stress disorder. But scientists now know that a traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely.

The game that can give...

 At the same time, companies began to develop more drugs that are taken over a patient’s lifetime, like blood pressure and cholesterol medications, and later anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications. Because they are taken indefinitely, these drugs more profitable.

How can we solve the...

 They decided that he shouldn't be held indefinitely because he scores high on a checklist that might mean that he would have a greater than average chance of recidivism. So they let him go. And outside in the corridor he said to me, "You know what, Jon?

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 In theory, refugees have a right to a pathway to integration, or return to the country they've come from. But in practice, they get stuck in almost indefinite limbo. In theory, refugees are a shared global responsibility.

Our refugee system is...

 The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever. Bhaskara's drawing was one of the earliest designs for a perpetual motion machine, a device that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source.

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 tenth compared with a mammal of a similar size that means they don't have to eat very often a puff adder like this one can wait almost indefinitely for its

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