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endure

[en-door, -dyoor] / ɛnˈdʊər, -ˈdjʊər /




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I’m trying not to be some Pollyanna here, but I’ve always kind of thought film would endure.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

People such as Berenger, who have felt most acutely the loneliness of the human condition, are best equipped to endure it, inured as they are to the pain of standing apart from the mob.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

A long investing horizon can make it easier to endure those periods.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

Scientists were surprised that microbes like these could endure exposure on the exterior of the space station.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

The eastern end of the piece was only eight miles from Santa Rosa, and local interest in the history of “Running Fence” endures.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

"But it endures anyway as a tradition that forges character, one that sets us apart from other branches of the armed forces."

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Sarah says she endures the long travel time as she loves running her shop.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

I am their hero, and now I am fighting to make sure the positive and real image they know of me is the one that endures.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Alyssa endures it, Garrett’s all smiles, and Henry remains all business, keeping his hands gripping the wheel at ten and two.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The region has endured prolonged and extreme drought.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

The stench is similar to what residents in Boyle Heights have said they’ve endured for more than two months after a fire broke out in the massive cold-storage warehouse in June.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

Canadians have adjusted cheerfully to many decades of friendship, have welcomed booming trade partnerships and have endured Yank ignorance and condescension.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

U.S.-German cooperation on the Rolling Airframe Missile has endured for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

If anything, she loved him all the more for what they had endured together.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Wright also stressed the importance of fixing Venezuela's electricity sector, with much of the country enduring hours-long power cuts on a daily basis.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

The desire to escape the airport terminal in an exclusive oasis has been an enduring travel trend.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

With no resolution in sight, how has this enduring trade war affected Canada and the US, and what could come next?

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Critic W. David Marx, looking to sum up the curiously stagnant opening decades of the 21st century, cribbed a phrase from one of its enduring icons for the title of his book “Blank Space.”

From Salon Aug. 29, 2026

Sometimes there are real, live, enduring controversies in science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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