permanency

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Recent Examples of permanency 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 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 Cornyn’s four-decade political career has labeled him as an Establishment Republican, but that same permanency was a point of contention for many Paxton supporters. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for permanency
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  1. permanence
  2. timelessness
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  • Approaches that are designed for iteration instead of permanence.
    — Duane Tursi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The kind that turns novelty into permanence.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 25 June 2026
Definition of permanence
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  • 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
Definition of timelessness

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“Permanency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanency. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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