permanence
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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
This was our bid for permanence: a rising generation that understood what was possible—and that even more was possible for them.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing permanence
Sheryl Sandberg Commencement Address 2016
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