permanence
Example Sentences
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Instead, the architect suggested that most galleries should be designed with a sense of permanence, abandoning their track lighting and removable walls.
From New York Times
“The key thing there is permanence. People are living there all year around.”
From Seattle Times
Yes, death does prove that all our permanence is temporary — that all our security, in the end, is false security.
From Washington Post
“They have a great sense of permanence to them,” O’Leary says of such objects.
From Washington Post
Because that addresses really the only part of this whole scenario that hasn't hardened into permanence.
From Washington Post
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