permanence

Example Sentences

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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

This nuance can be seen to call into question the permanence and depth of their connection to any given political party or ideology.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

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

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice, the invoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revenge herself upon began to assume a quality almost of solidity, permanence.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner