impermanence
Example Sentences
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As a street artist, however, Mero has had to embrace impermanence, although she acknowledges it can be a bummer when a piece disappears in a day or two.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
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
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025
By all measures, this is a movie that needs to do well, even for a studio that prides itself on the impermanence of its properties.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025
I want to be back in the motel, back on the road, in my old rootless life of impermanence and safety.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
