impermanence
Example Sentences
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While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
It was that sense of impermanence, she believes, that made the films special.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
Time-blindness causes late fees; object impermanence means we lose things and have to replace them.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
Restlessness, impermanence, and speed were embedded in the culture that soon emerged there, along with an openness to anything new.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
