impermanence
Example Sentences
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While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
But that impermanence is also what makes the holidays so special.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
Or, as Long put it, “embracing the rare imperfections and impermanence of it all.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
He was lecturing me on the impermanence of memory.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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