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Sentence count:151+9Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: continueendurego onlastpersevereprevailstayAntonym: desistSimilar words: Persianversionever sincediversityconversioncontroversialresistsubsistMeaning: [pər'sɪst /pə's-]  v. 1. continue to exist 2. be persistent, refuse to stop 3. stay behind. 
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(31) Yet they persist anyway-at least they do as long as they are leaders.
(32) It shows yet again that good habits persist as do bad ones.
(33) The Committee's solution was to persist with a separate offence of infanticide.
(34) Under a fixed exchange rate a currency flow surplus is likely to persist for some time.
(35) And yet, despite our earnest desire for happiness, we persist in disregarding the spiritual depths of ourselves.
(36) The desire to persist in interrogation is a valid reason for keeping a suspect in custody for thirty-six hours and indeed beyond.
(37) Why do self-oriented intents and deceptive behaviors persist in organizations?
(38) Secondly, admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission.
(39) There are usually reasons why some ideas take hold and persist while others fail to do so.
(40) But now, a hundred years on, certain factions persist in taking it at face value.
(41) The cloudy conditions will persist through the evening and overnight with just the occasional spot of drizzle, mainly over the hills.
(42) These tend to disappear as we grow older but occasionally persist into adulthood.
(43) So it was evident that Dan was able to persist in some of his endeavors-but not in his basic academic work.
(44) Although most frequent between ages 11 and 30, acne can persist for many years.
(45) However, as is clearly argued in the chapter, old debates persist through new technological developments.
(46) Even if the adults do not try to talk the child out of it, they may not persist with their request.
(47) Attitudes of interest and awareness therefore are highly important and that importance will persist throughout the teacher's career.
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(48) Hence Paris modernism was able to persist as a vital and radical force.
(49) This illustrates a difference that was to persIst between the two houses as the program evolved.
(50) They may need to pause for a minute after each picture, since after-images tend to persist.
(51) Dear Harsnet, he wrote, why do you persist in this rigmarole of refusing even to acknowledge my existence?
(52) Sightings of space aliens persist, with several organized groups claiming to have seen them, or even to have been abducted.
(53) The men and women were on their knees, begging the agents and constables not to persist with the evictions.
(54) This guidance helped them gain insight into the characteristics that inhibited their own ability to persist and to complete schoolwork.
(55) It is difficult to avoid concluding that, where they do persist, transposable elements must be conferring some benefit.
(56) The first few pairs of somites that form do not persist; they disappear and are incorporated into the head.
(57) We persist in grasping at neat, simple answers, when we should be questioning everything.
(58) Yet Masterkova proved to be the only one to persist throughout her career on that lonely road.
(59) The old patterns are allowed to persist but are made progressively more inconvenient.
(60) Some of these differences are in the structure and organization of the school - differences that will persist despite the National Curriculum.
More similar words: Persianversionever sincediversityconversioncontroversialresistsubsistassistinsistconsistassist inassistantconsist ofconsist inassistanceconsistentresistanceconsistentlyas iscrisishersemphasisothersanalysispersonhypothesisdiagnosisparalysisever so
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