as in forever
for all time
planned to stay there permanently
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Recent Examples of permanently
Stone tools could end civilization—all of it, permanently, forever.
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Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
Instead, the researchers suggest ultrastable lasers housed inside permanently shadowed craters could serve as master timing references for future lunar satellites and communication networks, effectively acting as part of a lunar GPS infrastructure.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 19 May 2026
The new name will be temporary until the organization permanently rebrands itself.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
This life drop permanently added a point of health to my life gauge.
—Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 18 May 2026
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Caroline Rose Giuliani, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
Instead, the researchers suggest ultrastable lasers housed inside permanently shadowed craters could serve as master timing references for future lunar satellites and communication networks, effectively acting as part of a lunar GPS infrastructure.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 19 May 2026
The new name will be temporary until the organization permanently rebrands itself.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026
This life drop permanently added a point of health to my life gauge.
—Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for permanently
Adverb
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According to his best friend, Scott Coker is a lifelong martial artist, a bad golfer and a promoter forever critical to the MMA landscape.—
Mark Puleo,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Arizona has executed a death row inmate for setting two people on fire more than 20 years ago, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
Adverb
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There was always a good chance Mahomes would be ready for the team’s season opener, and the Chiefs provided an update recently saying Mahomes may be ready for training camp.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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While El Niño doesn’t always perform as expected for Southern California, some experts still find value in using its arrival as a scene-setter for potential weather impacts.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
Adverb
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Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.—
Jim Mustian,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Once teased for their transness, Little Death is now eternally doomed to the bottom of the lake at Camp Tivoli when not seasonally resurfacing to kill horny teenagers (and, of course, doomed to be reincarnated in endless sequels).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
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“Permanently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permanently. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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