permanence
Example Sentences
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“People associate that sense of permanence with a divine quality and a metaphor for things that are eternal, like love between people, devotion to a deity and political power.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing permanence
Sheryl Sandberg Commencement Address 2016
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Twenty-Four Seconds from Now
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The Serpent King
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