permanent
adjective
existing perpetually; everlasting, especially without significant change.
quasi-permanent
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a word derived from
permanent.
Example Sentences
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With his approval rating sliding dramatically, Mexico’s president seems compelled to remain in a quasi-permanent campaign.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2020
And despite its name, the administration says, the Temporary Protected Status program, known as T.P.S., had turned into a quasi-permanent benefit for hundreds of thousands of people.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2018
The quasi-permanent street closures around Tahrir Square obstructed one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city, testing the ingenuity of Cairenes determined to carry on with their lives.
From Time ● Jan. 25, 2016
In a much-touted program on the Capital Beltway, the Virginia Department of Transportation unveiled a VSL program ahead of a series of quasi-permanent work-zone merges for construction on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2011
By reason of duration, scruples may be classified as intermittent, or temporary, and quasi-permanent which is characteristic of the constitutionally scrupulous person whose physical and psychical disposition incline him to scrupulosity.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
