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After the activity feed was discontinued I realized that I was nearing 1000 days in a row with these word of the day topics and I decided that that was probably a good time for me to stop posting these word of the day topics. Thank you to anyone that kept up with these topics, or just viewed a few of them. I wish everyone well. I don't plan to do any more of these topics so good luck and stay safe.

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Today's word is durable.
As defined by Merriam-Webster:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/durable

Did You Know?

Something "durable" lasts a long time, so it's no surprise that the word comes to us, via Anglo-French, from the Latin verb durare, meaning "to last." Other descendants of "durare" in English include "during," "endure," and "durance" (which now mostly turns up in the phrase "in durance vile," a fancy way of saying "in prison"). "Durable" even has a near synonym in the much rarer "perdurable," which combines "durare" with the prefix per- (meaning "throughout") to create a word that can mean "lasting a very long time or indefinitely" or "eternal."

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