Definitions
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- adjective Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.
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- verb Present participle of
persist .
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- adjective relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit
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Examples
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She is the idea of primordial unity, existing in and persisting from the beginning.
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Nothing to do with why I started, but a reason for persisting, is that blogging has made me much more engaged with the whole internet.
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Nothing to do with why I started, but a reason for persisting, is that blogging has made me much more engaged with the whole internet.
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This, however, he would by no means allow; and as he called her persisting in the right, obstinacy, he began to hate her with no small inveteracy.
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After fifteen or thirty minutes, he gets to his feet, staggering a bit, regains feeling and consciousness and is left with only blood diarrhoea still persisting from the anaphylaxis.
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This, however, he would by no means allow; and as he called her persisting in the right, obstinacy, he began to hate her with no small inveteracy.
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This, however, he would by no means allow; and as he called her persisting in the right, obstinacy, he began to hate her with no small inveteracy.
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730
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Few studies have assessed long term persisting immunity against hepatitis B virus (HBV) in children vaccinated during infancy with combined vaccines containing recombinant HBV surface antigen (HBs).
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They have still not turned up in Luanda because of what UNITA described as persisting
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By some they are described as persisting movements and vibrations; by others, as fixed impressions and structural modifications; by others finally, as tendencies and dispositions to certain functions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Diagnosis of an early pregnancy failure is often straightforward when ultrasound definitively identifies an intrauterine or extrauterine pregnancy.1-3 However, ultrasound does not definitively identify pregnancy location in up to 40% of women presenting for evaluation. This transient state is termed a pregnancy of unknown location.4 During surveillance, up to one-third of women will have serial human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) concentrations in a pattern suggesting neither an ongoing viable gestation nor a spontaneously resolving pregnancy loss; this scenario is termed a persisting pregnancy of unknown location. These women are at high risk of an ectopic pregnancy.
GHibbs commented on the word persisting
My adjectival use: 'Rather than saying 'the persisting people' they would say, 'the persistent people'.'
August 23, 2011