permanency
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Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin observed in 1815 that the people “are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation; and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Sharing such a personal part of your life online can sometimes come with anxiety - something Seidman believes is down to a fear of online permanency.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
To say that I alone can do virtually anything suggests a degree of permanency, perhaps even supernatural power.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
“To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a Government for the whole is indispensable,” Washington wrote.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
He had said “always” to convince her, assure her, of permanency.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Both have now embarked on the quest for that most elusive of all permanencies: a lasting peace.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man of sense is the visionary or illusionist, fancying things as permanencies, and thoughts as fleeting phantoms.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
I can stand her in homeopathic doses, but the Riviera isn't nearly big enough for the two of us as permanencies.
From A Comedy of Masks A Novel by Ernest Christopher Dowson
But I cannot propose that she should live permanently with me because all future permanencies have been taken out of my hands.
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
