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[pur-muh-nuhnt] / ˈpɜr mə nənt /


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A record nine clubs entered this season with new permanent managers.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Alfozan, 35, is a Saudi national and a legal permanent resident of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“It’s turning the $400 to $600 a month they were sending to credit-card companies into a permanent savings habit. That can materially change their long-term financial trajectory.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

I thought there would be more time for us to decide whether or not our awkward silence was a permanent state of affairs, to figure out how to move forward since we can’t move back.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse


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