permanence

Example Sentences

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Despite their aura of permanence, Oscar statuettes have occasionally vanished over the years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Compounding that issue is the permanence of AI-related job losses.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

When authorization denials become effectively unreviewable, legal error hardens into permanence by default.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026

But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Only when agriculture came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck