permanence

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For his part, Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973, thought of permanence as the biggest myth of all, according to Lisa LeFeuvre, director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 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

As the look fades, it leaves behind questions rather than permanence.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026

It raised a question, however, that would be raised again six months later: Why did the market suddenly distrust a giant Wall Street firm whose permanence it not so very long before took for granted?

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis