permanency
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It said that allowing them to be revoked "based simply on welfare" could undermine their permanency.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
“To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable,” Washington wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
But after that, the goal was for permanency.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Howard, Kathleen
Rhetoric, according to its quality, stands in many degrees of relation to the permanencies of truth; and all rhetoric, like all flesh, is partly unreal, and the glory of both is fleeting.
From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
I can stand her in homeopathic doses, but the Riviera isn't nearly big enough for the two of us as permanencies.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Dowson, Ernest Christopher
But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by Hull, E. M. (Edith Maude)
