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- verb Present participle of
perseverate . - adjective Exhibiting
perseveration ;persisting ,continuing .
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Examples
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So did God have any comments about you fabricating and perseverating the "death panels" lie to scare the elderly in hopes of preventing health care reform from passing and providing health care for the 1/6+/- of this country that "perhaps needed some insurance"? pat c.
Palin on 2012: 'If it's right, then we will pursue that' 2010
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So why are we perseverating instead on the release of tiny amounts of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant?
In Japan, Let's Stop Sweating The Small (Nuclear) Stuff 2011
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This isn't racial and it's not worth perseverating over.
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I am getting a lot of work done; no longer perseverating on my god awful rash and finally cooked something for the family to eat tonight.
Life is So Much Better When.... Zombie Mom 2009
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What I saw, and all those I talked to, allowed me to look outward, not just perseverating inward.
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Bashing, insulting, perseverating on evils done to our beloved candidate -- all of this is just venting.
Seriously folks, you can stop writing about how angry Hillary makes you now. 2008
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A rigid inability to stop perseverating also contributes.
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Crashing for Emma can mean zoning out or perseverating on some seemingly insignificant thing -- a missing photograph, a stick she picked up and by mistake dropped or a portion of packing tape no one knew she cared about that was inadvertently thrown away.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ariane Zurcher 2011
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So why are we perseverating instead on the release of tiny amounts of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant? rss
Forbes.com: News Patrick Michaels 2011
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Response to hard times is not restricted to perseverating over the check book.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Stephen Herrington 2011
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