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ad nauseam

[ ad naw-zee-uhm, -am ]

adverb

  1. to a sickening or disgusting degree.


ad nauseam

/ -sɪ-; æd ˈnɔːzɪˌæm /

adverb

  1. to a disgusting extent
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ad nauseam

  1. To go on endlessly; literally, to continue “to seasickness”: “The candidate told us the details of how he overcame his childhood problems ad nauseam .”
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Origin of ad nauseam1

< Latin: literally, to seasickness
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ad nauseam1

Latin: to (the point of) nausea
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Idioms and Phrases

To ridiculous excess, to a sickening degree. For example, I wish he'd drop the subject; we have heard about budget cuts ad nauseam . The term, Latin for “to [the point of] nausea,” has been used in English since the early 1600s.
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Ohtani’s penchant for delivering on command is something that has been discussed ad nauseam — I wrote about it again after Ohtani homered in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants four days earlier.

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In turn, of course, I then made this fennel-and-cheese dish ad nauseam in the ensuing years.

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Details at 11 and unending opinions offered on various corporate and social media platforms ad nauseam – as long as you respond to the clickbait.

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Latino disenchantment with the Democratic Party, the growing numbers of us who support Donald Trump, our emerging power in swing states — I’ve covered all of this ad nauseam over the last eight years.

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Then you try to exploit the nuance of Google’s algorithm by gearing your site toward Google monetization under-the-hood — and then, finally, you repeat the process ad nauseam to generate a prolific flood of AI-generated copy.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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