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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ad nauseam
adverb
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▪ All these old rules have been taught and repeated ad nauseam.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ad nauseam

"to a sickening extent," Latin, literally "to sickness," from ad "to" (see ad-) + nauseam, accusative of nausea (see nausea).

Wiktionary
ad nauseam

adv. 1 To a nauseating or sickening degree. 2 Used to refer to the fact that something has been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.

WordNet
ad nauseam

adv. to a sickening extent; "he played the song ad nauseam"

Wikipedia
Ad nauseam

is a Latin term for argument or other discussion that has continued 'to [the point of] nausea'. For example, the sentence "This topic has been discussed " signifies that the topic in question has been discussed extensively, and that those involved in the discussion have grown tired of it. The fallacy is also called ('to infinity'), and argument from repetition.

Ad Nauseam (The Rotted album)

Ad Nauseam is the second studio album by the British death metal band The Rotted. It was released on October 31, 2011 on Candlelight Records.

Usage examples of "ad nauseam".

Only Republicans have their stumbles giddily repeated ad nauseam, analyzed and used as epithets, until more Americans can recite a simple slip of tongue by a Republican than can place the Civil War in the correct century.

And the Achilles heel of every male has been revealed ad nauseam on television, to wit, the opposite sex.

The minute he identified himself alarms would go off and insofar as his face was seen repeatedly, ad nauseam, on television and half Washington was searching for him, his every move had to be carefully thought out.

Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Mr Dodd had inserted a tape cassette labelled 'Family History, Findings In', which thanks to Lockhart's electronic ingenuity no sooner ended than it rewound itself and repeated its findings ad nauseam.

Geikie, a bold bad geologist, proving ad nauseam that the chalk alone would have required more than 6000 years to deposit, was met by a thousand subterfuges.

You came there to eat, and the food is pressed upon you ad nauseam.

I never really missed anything, though, since all the important points were repeated over and over ad nauseam.