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persist

[per-sist, -zist] / pərˈsɪst, -ˈzɪst /


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That transformation has surprised many within academy football, where stories persist of fierce rivalries between the two clubs, heated confrontations behind the scenes and intense celebrations after victories at lower age-group levels.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Heat might persist into the last week of July.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The result suggests that living plastics could eventually be used in products that need to remain durable for a limited time but should not persist after they are discarded.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

Investors will keep a close eye on events in the Middle East to see whether heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran persist or whether they begin to ease.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

But Nana took advantage of the slightest distraction on Nivea’s part to persist in her attempts to cure the child’s muteness with the same remedy she used for hiccups.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

That sort of weakness, if it persists, could put pressure on the rest of the U.S. corporate bond market, where borrowers have benefited from spreads near record lows, according to Murphy.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

My worry persists about governments looking for discrimination to punish.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

Zephirin believes shares can hit $310 while the imbalance persists.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

But the question persists: What, exactly, sent them to the bottom of the ocean?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

“You eat lunch with her every day” Pamela persists.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

But his love for reading persisted, and over the last decade he has been posting his own poems and essays on social media.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

According to his analysis, this group may have persisted for around 35 million years.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

Black Americans continued to have the highest death rate of any group tracked, and men continued to die at higher rates than women—a gap that has persisted for years.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

That instinct to buy on pullbacks has persisted in 2026.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

The two ideas of him, the low and the high, persisted side by side for a long time.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

If Sapiens women had, in fact, regularly entered Neanderthal groups, we would expect to see a recent genetic signal of Sapiens ancestry persisting among the last Neanderthals.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

With the heat persisting into Tuesday across south-eastern areas, some locations may enter official heatwave conditions with temperatures above 27C or 28C for three consecutive days.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

—Use incognito or private browsing mode, which prevents cookies from persisting between sessions and makes it harder for sites to recognize you as a returning visitor, though many sites have tracking mechanisms other than cookies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

So that looks like the war persisting for a while yet.

From Barron's Apr. 2, 2026

All of these persisting effects were severe enough to make it difficult for the physician to carry on his practice.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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