insistence

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That reasoning sits uneasily with the court’s modern insistence on historical analogy.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Despite his insistence that he was healthy fairly soon after he suffered a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise March 15, Antetokounmpo didn’t play in the last 15 games of the season.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

She added that doctors were "not concerned about the reproductive organs, despite my almost insistence at the time that this is my primary concern".

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Top of Wooden’s list was an insistence that Close could succeed without berating players.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The Allies’ insistence that Germany pay billions in war reparations was a source of festering resentment.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman