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permanence

[pur-muh-nuhns] / ˈpɜr mə nəns /


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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

But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

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




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