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permanence

[pur-muh-nuhns] / ˈpɜr mə nəns /


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“People associate that sense of permanence with a divine quality and a metaphor for things that are eternal, like love between people, devotion to a deity and political power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Compounding that issue is the permanence of AI-related job losses.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

“I think we like to talk about technology as having a permanence to it, but there is no permanence to it,” Wicks says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

When authorization denials become effectively unreviewable, legal error hardens into permanence by default.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2026

The first impression forced on me was that permanence is neither achieved nor desired by mobile people.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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