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perseverant

[pur-suh-veer-uhnt] / ˌpɜr səˈvɪər ənt /






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"The fight is going to be a long one, but writers are known to be perseverant people."

From BBC Jan. 4, 2024

But she insisted her relationship with Mr Johnson had "no bearing" on her ability to build her events business, which she put down to being "the most annoying, perseverant hustler".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2021

As portrayed deliciously here by Mr. Radcliffe, who has now put the boy wizard persona well behind him, the character of Fingal is D’Agata’s spiritual and physical opposite: scruffy, small, awkward and perseverant.

From New York Times Oct. 19, 2018

But what if that's just the definition of good, perseverant reporting?

From The Verge Jun. 12, 2016

"I accepted it," he wrote to Wordsworth while still at Shrewsbury, "on the presumption that I had talents, honesty, and propensities to perseverant effort."

From Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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