Persist
verb
To continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.
She persisted in her search for the truth.
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General,Academic
verb
To continue to exist or occur over a prolonged period.
The rumor persisted for years.
verb
In computing, to cause (data) to remain in output devices or on auxiliary storage media after having initially been brought out or produced for further processing or use.
The system persists the data to the database.
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Technical
verb
To continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.
She persisted in her search for the truth.
Usage tips
General,Academic
verb
To continue to exist or occur over a prolonged period.
The rumor persisted for years.
verb
In computing, to cause (data) to remain in output devices or on auxiliary storage media after having initially been brought out or produced for further processing or use.
The system persists the data to the database.
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Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Stubborn Connotation
Using 'persist' can suggest stubbornness or unyielding efforts when facing challenges.
Despite the harsh criticism, he persisted with his project.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Nuance
'Persist' often has a positive nuance, admiring someone's determination.
She persisted with her studies and finally passed the exam.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Despite Failure
Emphasizes continuing action even after failing, not just facing difficulties.
He persisted in his attempts to learn French, even after failing the initial test.
Pro Tip 1/3Stubborn Connotation
Using 'persist' can suggest stubbornness or unyielding efforts when facing challenges.
Despite the harsh criticism, he persisted with his project.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Nuance
'Persist' often has a positive nuance, admiring someone's determination.
She persisted with her studies and finally passed the exam.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Despite Failure
Emphasizes continuing action even after failing, not just facing difficulties.
He persisted in his attempts to learn French, even after failing the initial test.
Pro Tip 1/3Stubborn Connotation
Using 'persist' can suggest stubbornness or unyielding efforts when facing challenges.
Despite the harsh criticism, he persisted with his project.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Nuance
'Persist' often has a positive nuance, admiring someone's determination.
She persisted with her studies and finally passed the exam.
Pro Tip 3/3Action Despite Failure
Emphasizes continuing action even after failing, not just facing difficulties.
He persisted in his attempts to learn French, even after failing the initial test.
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Feedback loops: How...
maintaining a long-term equilibrium and allowing a food chain to persist over time. Feedback processes might seem counterintuitive because many of us are used to more predictable linear scenarios of cause and effect. For instance, it seems simple enough that spraying pesticides would help plants grow by killing pest insects,
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When will the next mass...
causing thousands of species to die off in a geological instant. We call this a mass extinction event, and although such events may be rare, paleontologists have been able to identify several of them through dramatic changes in the fossil record, where lineages that persisted through several geological layers
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began many millions of years before the appearance of humans.
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At what moment are you...
because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life. Whether it was called qi, lifeblood, or humors, the belief in such an essence was common throughout the world, and still persists in the stories of creatures
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What I learned from 100...
between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old. One wanted to conquer the world -- make a difference -- another was afraid of rejection. And every time that six-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.
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What’s so great about...
creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange that persists to this day. In fact, today, the interconnected Great Lakes
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After Decades of...
season directors also play into viewers fantasies about south asia despite the region's diversity and rapid changes certain narratives persist around poverty enlightenment and enchantment india itself is a stereotype character
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The Northern Lights...
if you think about it this is the only time that we really see the Earth's magnetic field that's one of the reasons why life on Earth has been able to persist for four billion years in a sense that's the reason that you exist
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Asking where consciousnes...
does it die with it well it consciousness is just information Meishan trace perhaps it persists in the universe in much the same way that the visual spectrum outlast the person who is having a visual perception and if
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Let's talk about sex -...
we don't know why sex evolved nor why it persists. Why don't we just clone ourselves like all life did a billion years ago? It's so much more efficient. We would all have babies, no mates.
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Feedback loops: How...
maintaining a long-term equilibrium and allowing a food chain to persist over time. Feedback processes might seem counterintuitive because many of us are used to more predictable linear scenarios of cause and effect. For instance, it seems simple enough that spraying pesticides would help plants grow by killing pest insects,
Video examples
When will the next mass...
causing thousands of species to die off in a geological instant. We call this a mass extinction event, and although such events may be rare, paleontologists have been able to identify several of them through dramatic changes in the fossil record, where lineages that persisted through several geological layers
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
Do such structures serve some hidden function that hasn't yet been discovered? Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began many millions of years before the appearance of humans.
Video examples
At what moment are you...
because they were filled with a special substance, or energy, that was the essence of life. Whether it was called qi, lifeblood, or humors, the belief in such an essence was common throughout the world, and still persists in the stories of creatures
Video examples
What I learned from 100...
between the 14-year-old and the six-year-old. One wanted to conquer the world -- make a difference -- another was afraid of rejection. And every time that six-year-old won. And this fear even persisted after I started my own company.
Video examples
What’s so great about...
creating the world's largest area of freshwater lakes. Over time, channels developed between these basins, and water began to flow in an ongoing exchange that persists to this day. In fact, today, the interconnected Great Lakes
Video examples
After Decades of...
season directors also play into viewers fantasies about south asia despite the region's diversity and rapid changes certain narratives persist around poverty enlightenment and enchantment india itself is a stereotype character
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The Northern Lights...
if you think about it this is the only time that we really see the Earth's magnetic field that's one of the reasons why life on Earth has been able to persist for four billion years in a sense that's the reason that you exist
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
does it die with it well it consciousness is just information Meishan trace perhaps it persists in the universe in much the same way that the visual spectrum outlast the person who is having a visual perception and if
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Let's talk about sex -...
we don't know why sex evolved nor why it persists. Why don't we just clone ourselves like all life did a billion years ago? It's so much more efficient. We would all have babies, no mates.
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William Nicholson
British Writer
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
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E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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RM
Korean Musician
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
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Eudora Welty
American Author
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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Sebastian Junger
American Author
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
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Neil Robertson
Australian Celebrity
There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.
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Norman Angell
British Writer
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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William Blake
English Poet
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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William Nicholson
British Writer
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form - not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
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E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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RM
Korean Musician
Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
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Eudora Welty
American Author
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Quote examples
Sebastian Junger
American Author
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?
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Neil Robertson
Australian Celebrity
There's no way in the world any of the guys who have beaten me would have thought I could do what I've done. I just kept persisting with it.
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Norman Angell
British Writer
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
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Nelson Mandela
South African Statesman
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
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William Blake
English Poet
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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