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permanence

[pur-muh-nuhns] / ˈpɜr mə nəns /


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Every piece of Iranian diaspora culture was built on the bedrock of the regime’s permanence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

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

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

This nuance can be seen to call into question the permanence and depth of their connection to any given political party or ideology.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 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

Only when agriculture came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence.

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