PERMANENCY Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

permanency

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Recent Examples of permanency 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 Then in May of 2024, DCF changed the permanency plan with the child’s foster parents from pre-adoption to placement with Cabrera. — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for permanency

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In this seduction, in a text that manages to be both grandiose and intimate, Rice works the mysterious alchemy of creating permanence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
For the Brotherhood, Rabaa became the defining catastrophe of its post-2013 political memory, upending its organization, self-conception, and belief in its own permanence.

— Abdelrahman ElGendy, Time, 6 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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