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permanence

[pur-muh-nuhns] / ˈpɜr mə nəns /


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And possibility, after 47 years of permanence, turns out to be the most disorienting thing of all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

“I think we like to talk about technology as having a permanence to it, but there is no permanence to it,” Wicks says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

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

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026

This was our bid for permanence: a rising generation that understood what was possible—and that even more was possible for them.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama