lasting

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Microsoft’s stock momentum suggests that the software sector may be staging a lasting recovery from the artificial-intelligence selloff.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

A one-time bump doesn’t necessarily create lasting inflation.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

The approval process required over 1,470 separate steps, with a majority of reviews lasting longer than a year.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Twenty-three years later, those first impressions have long since been replaced by lasting erosions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

They believed that in doing so Orgoreyn would gain a large and lasting prestige-victory over Karhide, and that the Commensals who engineered this victory would gain according prestige and power in their government.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin