Other Word Forms
- noninsistence noun
- overinsistence noun
- superinsistence noun
Etymology
Origin of insistence
Example Sentences
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She added that doctors were "not concerned about the reproductive organs, despite my almost insistence at the time that this is my primary concern".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Despite the government's insistence its targets were part of an illicit and murderous network, residents tell a different story.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
His rootedness would prove costly after the war, despite his insistence that he was only serving music.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
She rejected Thaler’s argument, as had the federal trial judge who first heard the case, that the Copyright Office’s insistence that the author of a work must be human was unconstitutional.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
They walked for a few hours, Harry, at Hermione’s insistence, hidden beneath the Invisibility Cloak.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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