permanency

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Recent Examples of permanency Last year, the group helped 220 children get reunited with their families, adopted or find permanency through guardianship, according to the group’s executive director Jim Di Ciaula. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 9 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for permanency
Noun
  • Historically designed for permanence, their strength in preserving knowledge now hinders rapid response to concurrent global shifts.
    David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • One of the album’s most profound moments arrives via director David Cronenberg, who muses on change and permanence in his gravelly tenor.
    Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • This portrait of wannabe bohemians and intellectuals who adopt the fashions, mannerisms, and artistic practices of an earlier time has its own essential timelessness.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Over time, the garden has slipped free of its era and aged into timelessness.
    Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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“Permanency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanency. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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