permanency
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Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
In addition, she reinforced the legal permanency of the order by adding:
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2023
The judge ordered him to appear for a permanency hearing in June 2024.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
He had said “always” to convince her, assure her, of permanency.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
