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Without such control, someone who perseverates finds it difficult to stop a particular action and switch to another.

It’s easy to rebuke yourself when you realize you’ve been perseverating on a rude encounter on the subway for hours.

It can involve perseverating about the past, which we call rumination, perseverating about the future, we call that worry.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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