durable
The durability of the suit is top-notch: it has served 3 hard years and is still going strong.
Cournoyer said they chose the dome home because of its durability in storms and energy efficiency.
There are growing doubts about the durability of the recovery as the stock market continues to fall.
Although many NFL scouts consider Simmons a first-round talent, questions about his durability might have prevented him from being chosen.

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Lasting for a long time
Physically strong and powerful

durability | Business English

durability
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌdjʊərəˈbɪləti/us
the fact of something continuing to be used without getting damaged:
All our toys are tested for durability.
the fact of something continuing without failing:
There are those who question the durability of the economic recovery.

Examples of durability

durability
Instead, given that a monetary union existed at independence for each country, we are interested in testing a hypothesis about its subsequent durability.
Partly because these were utilitarian structures, durability was not a prime concern; surviving examples are accorded significance as authentic vernacular.
Clearly, the notion of durability is related to the stable location of the farmstead, whose cultural biography spans multiple household cycles and building phases.
One would perhaps expect that experienced ministers have greater durability, especially if experience is correlated with ability.
Focalism and durability bias lead them to the conclusion that the patient will not be able to bear any bad news.
The research focused on five areas: concrete durability, seismic base isolation, curtain wall design, roof materials, and building systems.
In terms of the notions of transience and durability introduced above, the emphasis thus seems to be on transience.
We conjecture that antibodies lacking in durability have become prevalent in the population resulting in the disappearance of large epidemics since 1992.
Inhabiting increasingly complex sociohistorical conditions, and facing divisions and discontinuities of the self that this inevitably elicited, individuals searched for durability, stability, and independence.
Recent reports suggest that the durability of these valves is limited, and that pregnancy accelerates their degeneration and calcification.
If hardwiring characteristics increase agency durability beyond that provided by statutory creation (and appropriate controls), this is relatively strong support for the theoretical argument.
The principal problem associated with repair of the mitral valve in children is long-term durability.
We checked the durability of the serotype-specific effect on resistance by investigating the influence of external factors linked to the host and the host's surroundings.
Moreover, a certain strength and durability is indicated in the emotional autobiographical memories of informants that was not apparent in other aspects of memory.
However, it allows us to account for both the long-run persistence of consumption and for the durability effect in the short run.
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