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The phrase "was permanently lost" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is gone or cannot be retrieved. Here are some examples: 1. Unfortunately, my phone was permanently lost during our trip to the beach. 2. The original manuscript of the novel was permanently lost in a fire. 3. After years of searching, the treasure hunters concluded that the ancient artifact was permanently lost. 4. The data on the hard drive was permanently lost after the computer crashed. 5. The company's reputation was permanently lost after the scandal was exposed. 6. Despite months of therapy, the memories of that traumatic event were permanently lost. 7. The old family photos were permanently lost after the flood destroyed their home. 8. The chance of finding the missing hikers alive was deemed to be permanently lost.
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Until now airlines have tended to take responsibility and pay compensation when baggage was permanently lost.
Her album "Fearless" has sold 5.4 million copies, a magnitude of blockbuster that most of the music industry had thought was permanently lost.
As Clinton strategists woke up the next morning, they realized that the African American constituency, a backbone of the Democratic coalition, was permanently lost to her.
Although there were some sins, called mortal sins e.g., murder, adultery, and apostasy for which certain local churches at certain times did not perform the rite, this did not mean that God did not forgive but only that good standing in the church was permanently lost.
As he was on his deathbed the Privy Council ordered that his house and chambers be searched, seizing 50 manuscripts, which were later restored; his will was permanently lost.
Although the kingdom originally encompassed the entirety of the Hebrides, much of the Inner Hebrides was permanently lost in the mid 12th century, but the dynasty retained control of the largest Hebridean islands of Lewis and Harris and Skye.
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For the research groups, this has resulted "in the freeze of research projects and the firing of researchers in non-permanent positions, who may be permanently lost [from] the system," Moro-Martín writes.
Productive farmland would never be permanently lost.
All system extensions and user interface modifications were permanently lost.
(Nureyev's face, meanwhile, is permanently lost in transcendent feeling).
If you think your device is permanently lost or stolen, contact the Stanford University Privacy Office.
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