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  • present tense form of persist (3rd person singular).

persists



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Why the Monarchy Persists: As long as there has been a monarchy, there have been questions about its legitimacy.

From New York Times • May 6, 2023

Famine Persists in Niger, but Denial Seems in the Past NIAMEY, Niger — Outside the state food warehouses here, women sift in the dirt for spilled grains of rice.

From New York Times • May 4, 2010

A faint, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning.

From Some Imagist Poets An Anthology by Aldington, Richard

Ah, no; the heart, the mind Persists in hoping,—schemes and strives That there may linger with our kind Some memory of our little lives.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

A FAINT, sickening scent of irises Persists all morning.

From Amores Poems by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)



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