as in forever
for all time
planned to stay there permanently
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Recent Examples of permanently
Sloth World permanently closed following the probe.
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Hail down a gondolier and make your way to the brand-new Venice location of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which will be housed permanently on the island of San Giacomo.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026
Young and Johnson lead the film as the twins, whose lives were permanently altered by a violent act tied to their father.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 5 May 2026
And Sylvie, who still gazes with utmost tenderness at a black-and-white photograph, taken during her time abroad, of a nameless wailing Russian child, has permanently abandoned her own daughter by refusing to visit her.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
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Julia Gomez, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Hail down a gondolier and make your way to the brand-new Venice location of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which will be housed permanently on the island of San Giacomo.
—Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026
Young and Johnson lead the film as the twins, whose lives were permanently altered by a violent act tied to their father.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 5 May 2026
And Sylvie, who still gazes with utmost tenderness at a black-and-white photograph, taken during her time abroad, of a nameless wailing Russian child, has permanently abandoned her own daughter by refusing to visit her.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permanently
Adverb
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Ted Turner changed our industry forever.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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Villaraigosa especially went hard on his forever frenemy Xavier Becerra on everything from his time as President Biden’s health secretary to how former staffers have been charged with stealing millions of dollars from his campaign funds.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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Congress has not always fulfilled its oversight responsibilities, and the differences between the last two administrations are a clear example of that.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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The middle child Ameya didn’t always appreciate Nadya calling the shots.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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Yet the single blemish on his resume is eternally painful to Dodgers fans.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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While we might be inclined to think of space and time as eternally expansive and divisible, the ultrafinitist would argue that these are assumptions that science has increasingly brought into question — much as, Zeilberger might say, science brought doubt to God’s doorstep.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Permanently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanently. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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