permanency

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Recent Examples of permanency The first floor is a permanency hearing for 14-year-old Jayden Carter. — Libby Smith, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026 The only answer for our country on that one is to use the legislative branch to finally have permanency in a 50-state requirement for all emissions — not just CO2, but everything. — Jamie Lincoln Kitman, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026 The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday wrote that the law prohibiting challenges to an adoption after six months is designed to create permanency, so a child is not bounced from one home to another. — Arkansas Online, 13 Feb. 2026 The federal government conducts periodic audits of every state’s child welfare system to measure children’s safety, permanency and well being. — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 2 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for permanency
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  1. permanence
  2. timelessness
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  • But the company warns that, as simulations run longer, details and object permanence can shift over time.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026
  • At the federal level, the printing press and the reserve-currency status of the dollar create an illusion of permanence.
    — Judi Willard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Oct. 2026
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  • There is a timelessness to The Vampire Chronicles that gives these stories weight—even when Lestat is donning leather pants and preening on a stage.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The musicians were smiling, the spectators tapped and clapped, and that magical sense of timelessness was real, spanning multiple generations.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
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