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
  • Although there is much to celebrate about the ways in which the internet has connected us, the permanence of the internet has given rise to censorship pressures—both individually and institutionally.
    Annabelle Garland, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • At some point the rules around permanence start to feel negotiable, so bring her back, Marvel!
    Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • The Symposium, for all its specificity, has a feeling of timelessness about it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • All that is simply the evidence of the novel’s global reach and its timelessness – or put another way, its eternal cultural relevance – at work.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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“Permanency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanency. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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