Example Sentences

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“A majority of participants highlighted…that some policy firming would likely become appropriate if inflation were to continue to run persistently above 2%,” according to the minutes of the April policy meeting, released Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Weaker wage growth combined with persistently higher prices squeezes real household income from both directions.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

His passion for music, however, lingered persistently in the background.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

“To me, I think that we’re right around where we want to be on the labor side, but we’re still persistently missing on that inflation side.”

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Even when they focused on a warmer place like Virginia, they persistently selected as colonists people ignorant of farming; multiplying the difficulties, the would-be colonizers were arriving in the middle of a severe, multiyear drought.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann