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  • noun Plural form of permanent.

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Examples

  • Apparently permanent vans and shacks were positioned along the foreshore until recently when National Parks cleaned up the site and moved the so called "permanents" further back and leased the business to a private operator.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • Hair permanents and relaxers are dangerous in very small amounts, even if marked "no lye."

    Personal Care Products 2010

  • This allows the ability to be played only once, but locks down the permanents (which is the correct word, since the word “card” includes cards in non-battlefield zones, like hand or deck) forever (but only during untap steps, which means someone could possibly untap their permanents through other means i.e. twiddle).

    KN | Kitsune Noir » Pedro Fernandes Wins The Magic: The Designing Contest 2010

  • I tried to bury myself in the smell of her place, a mixture of ginger cookies, Estée Lauder perfume (the one in the blue, hourglass bottle always on her dresser), and home permanents.

    Still relevant after 35 years 2007

  • I tried to bury myself in the smell of her place, a mixture of ginger cookies, Estée Lauder perfume (the one in the blue, hourglass bottle always on her dresser), and home permanents.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • There†™ s no buddy system out here for the permanents but we felt like starting one up.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • But Grey Advertising, an agency started and run by Jews, was awarded echt gentile Proctor and Gamble business in 1956 in the form of the Lilt home-permanents account, and P&G would eventually become a hugely important Grey client.

    Adam Hanft: Mad Men and Made Men 2008

  • January 17, 2008 at 1:25 am hai, Daisy…doo curly catz hab curly wisky-ers? wood maybe solve dis prob. hay–maybe wii can haz permanents?

    Tragedy - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Les répertoires des deux téléphones sont différents - celui qui comprend 200 fichiers représente les numéros plus permanents, alors que le petit ne contient que les numéros que j'appelle fréquemment.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Oleg Kuzin 2008

  • But Grey Advertising, an agency started and run by Jews, was awarded echt gentile Proctor and Gamble business in 1956 in the form of the Lilt home-permanents account, and P&G would eventually become a hugely important Grey client.

    Adam Hanft: Mad Men and Made Men 2008

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