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- verb To make
permanent
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Examples
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But, for the long term, we must permanentize aviation security.
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But we need to permanentize that system so that passengers will be able to not only feel safe and secure when they fly, but have some reasonable time frame in which to get through security.
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Lamenting that "we are in an industrial coma," he says of the Bush tax cuts, "We're not going to 'extend' them, we're going to permanentize them."
Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post George F. Will 2010
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I hope more non-English papers follow this trend and help to permanentize it.
Andrew Cusack 2008
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