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synonyms for persist

  • continue
  • endure
  • go on
  • linger
  • persevere
  • prevail
  • pursue
  • recur
  • remain
  • abide
  • grind
  • insist
  • last
  • obtain
  • perseverate
  • repeat
  • strive
  • be resolute
  • be stubborn
  • follow through
  • follow up
  • go all the way
  • go the limit
  • hold on
  • keep up
  • leave no stone unturned
  • perdure
  • see through
  • stick it out
  • stick to guns
  • tough it out
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antonyms for persist

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  • cease
  • discontinue
  • give up
  • go
  • halt
  • leave
  • stop
  • forget
  • quit
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How to use persist in a sentence

She found that even after considering geographic and demographic factors, the “Rush Limbaugh effect” persists.
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Ultimately they discovered that the turbulent patch persisted as long as the barrage kept coming.
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A blunted stress response persisted into middle childhood, even after an average of seven to eight years in a household with healthy caregiving.
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This allows stable patterns of useful behavior to emerge and persist.
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That’s the paperwork used to report interest income — and serves as a sign that low interest rates could persist.
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We think that those behaviors may persist as long as a decade.
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We persist because when paid equally, we will earn $950,000 or more over the course of our careers.
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Although the federal law was repealed after only eight years, San Diego’s own sedition law has persisted for a century and is still being used to ticket citizens.
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That’s more, each year, than the reductions that would likely occur this year if pandemic-related travel limits persisted through December 31.
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As of April 19, 32% of US respondents to a McKinsey survey were anticipating a drop in their household income and over half expect the impact on their household finances to persist for four months or more.
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WORDS RELATED TO PERSIST

  • abide
  • act
  • be alive
  • breathe
  • continue
  • do
  • endure
  • go on
  • have being
  • have place
  • hold
  • inhabit
  • last
  • live
  • move
  • obtain
  • persist
  • prevail
  • remain
  • rest
  • stand
  • stay
  • subsist
  • survive
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serotinaladjective | [si-rot-n-l, ser-uh-tahyn-l ]SEE DEFINITION