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A group presentation with a cyclic list of generators $a_i$ and relations $a_i{a}_{i+1}{a}_i^{-1}=a_{i+1}^2$ has no nontrivial finite quotient of a group. In a finite image, all generator orders are odd. Choose the least prime $p$ dividing any nontrivial generator order and let $x$ be the predecessor of a generator $y$ whose order is divisible by $p$. Conjugation by $x$ acts as squaring on $⟨y⟩$, so the multiplicative order of $2$ modulo $p$ divides the order of $x$. That multiplicative order is greater than one and divides $p-1$, giving a prime divisor smaller than $p$ in the order of $x$, a contradiction. This argument applies to any cycle length; it asserts absence of finite quotients, not infinitude of the presented group.

Every finitely presented group $P$ embeds in $P\times C_2$ by $p\mapsto (p,1)$. This direct product of groups is finitely presented: combine finite presentations of the factors and add the finitely many cross-commutation relations between their generators. Projection onto $C_2$ gives a nontrivial finite quotient of a group.

Thus no finitely presented $P$ can serve as the forbidden witness $A_{-}$ for this property. Hence