persist
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persevere, recur, linger, pursue, remain, continue, endure, prevail, repeat, last, obtain, abide, grind, insist, strive, perseverate, perdureExamples from the Web for persist
Contemporary Examples of persist
“That said, underneath the surface differences in threat perception and how to deal with Russia persist,” he says.
And yet the real battle might be an even harder one: against the attitudes that allow all this to persist in 21st-Century India.
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner, Is Fighting India's Child Slavery EpidemicDilip D’Souza
October 11, 2014
But to persist, to endure, to put your will toward a dream that sparks you, is to live large.
How then, does the Intelligent Design movement (ID) persist, in the face of so much damning contrary evidence?
What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.
Historical Examples of persist
Why should she persist in this eternal search for this impossible condition?
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
I beg of you to persist in your address—the unnatural brother called it address!
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
But if you persist in this way, Nat,—don't you know what it means?
The Fortune HunterLouis Joseph Vance
But why will you persist in living up here without any comfort?
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
But what you do not know is that the type once established does not persist of its own accord.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings