permanency
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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
Sharing such a personal part of your life online can sometimes come with anxiety - something Seidman believes is down to a fear of online permanency.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
“These folks have already been through so much and it’s frankly embarrassing that we can’t figure out how to give them the permanency that they’ve earned.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 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
The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
When deterioration occurs in the conditions that make literacy possible and necessary, many of the permanencies associated with literacy, including the interpersonal relations adapted to it, or the homogeneity of nations, fail.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
It is the business and the art of life to degrade permanencies.
From Here are Ladies by James Stephens
An old Englishwoman completed our list of permanencies.
From Confessions of an Opera Singer by Kathleen Howard
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