semipermanent
IPA: sɛmipˈɝmʌnʌnt
adjective
- Neither temporary nor entirely permanent; of indefinite duration.
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Examples of "semipermanent" in Sentences
- Greece would still be condemned to semipermanent austerity and recession.
- B" that proposed adding "semipermanent" members that would face reelection.
- In the months and years that followed, the Mormon church became a semipermanent part of life in Felony Flats.
- His left eyebrow rises in a semipermanent arch, lending him an aspect of either surprise or skepticism when he speaks.
- The museum could define itself as a performance venue and build an audience for a kind of semipermanent Folklife Festival under its roof.
- His latest product, Frizz-Ease 3-Day straight, is a semipermanent styling potion, for the lazy among us I'm including myself here, who don't want or need to wash their hair on a daily basis.
- In short, with the filibuster — a dubious tradition that encourages senators to act as spoilers rather than legislators, and that has locked the political system into semipermanent paralysis by ensuring that important decisions are endlessly deferred.
- In some cases they put them in a “state of semipermanent civil war”; the conflict in Vietnam, for example, lasted thirty years and resulted in huge human losses, devastation of the land, and aborted economic development.10 The negative effects still linger in many areas.
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