as in forever
for all time
planned to stay there permanently
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Recent Examples of permanently
Under the law permanently enjoined by the court, even sharing a website would be a crime, an obvious violation of the First Amendment.
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Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Beginning in 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act permanently increases the credit rate for some families by up to 15 percentage points, taking it as high as 50% of expenses.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Dynamic headroom helps protect resilience without permanently inflating spend.
—Ben Ofiri, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
He was permanently suspended from the platform for hate speech in 2020, but had his account reinstated in December 2022, shortly after Musk completed his acquisition of the site.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Beginning in 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act permanently increases the credit rate for some families by up to 15 percentage points, taking it as high as 50% of expenses.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Dynamic headroom helps protect resilience without permanently inflating spend.
—Ben Ofiri, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
He was permanently suspended from the platform for hate speech in 2020, but had his account reinstated in December 2022, shortly after Musk completed his acquisition of the site.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permanently
Adverb
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Eventually, the heavier European continent will slip underneath it, and the Mediterranean will disappear — forever this time.—
Elizabeth Fernandez,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
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If an alpha wolfs out under a full moon, they get stuck in that form forever and are doomed to be hunted and killed by their fellow werewolves.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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These were nearly always approved, even though the agency wrote that finances were an insufficient explanation in a presentation on the permitting process.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
4 Sep. 2025
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Depth and velocity of the water are not always obvious; the ground or road may suddenly wash away and hidden dangers may exist; do not attempt to evacuate through floodwaters.—
Staff reports,
AZCentral.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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And, may God eternally bless them, there are the Drucker brothers, Lipa (Liev Schreiber) and Schmully (Vincent D’Onofrio), the homicidal Hasidic mobsters who still make time to visit their bubbe on the way to a massacre.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
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Head coach Dave Canales is eternally optimistic.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Permanently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanently. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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