insistence
Example Sentences
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One insistence is that the action should fulfill an obligation to others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
It is the insistence on remaining human while threatened.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The pendulum is bound to swing the other way, despite the Stones’s insistence that there is “no turning back.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
They gave answers that showed calm, and an insistence that any change would not affect them.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
And despite his own insistence that his cure needed to be administered at the first signs of fever, he did not have himself bled or purged.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
