Definition of permanence
: the quality or state of being permanent : durability
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Foster care home gives permanence and hope to young girl who watched her parents struggle with addiction.
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And so this first year, 2.0 is about the permanence for middle-class families and our small businesses.
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Foster care home gives permanence and hope to young girl who watched her parents struggle with addiction.
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Foster care home gives permanence and hope to young girl who watched her parents struggle with addiction.
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Michelle’s Place Breast Cancer Resource Center, Oak Grove Center for Education Treatment & the Arts, and Santa Rosa Plateau Nature Education Foundation have agency endowment funds to support their permanence in the community.
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If your child is old enough to understand the permanence of death (around age 7), tell the truth.
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Surrounding the gazebo is a small park, and surrounding that are long rows of large, stony institutional permanence.
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In the suburbs of northern Virginia, Almansoob spent the afternoon driving from construction site to construction site, unable to sit in his office and unable come to terms with the new permanence of his reality.
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First Known Use of permanence
15th century
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Definition of permanence for Students
: the quality or state of lasting forever or for a long time
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