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She hasn't succeeded yet, but I admire her persistence.persistence = continuing effort despite difficulties
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The persistence of these organic pollutants makes them a more serious threat.persistence = prolonged existence
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The persistence of the scientist in her research eventually led to a groundbreaking discovery.persistence = continuing effort despite difficulties
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"I couldn't possibly," Grant said. "Oh, just for a weekend," Hammond said, with the irritating, cheery persistence of an old man. "That's all I'm talking about, Dr. Grant. I wouldn't want to interrupt your work." (source)persistence = continuing effort (despite difficulties)
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In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. (source)persistence = continuing effort despite difficulties
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An hour later, when the four of us were still seated on the sofas, I finally came to terms with their physical persistence. (source)persistence = continuing effort (despite difficulties)
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Maybe comrade Leplevsky was so dedicated to the brotherhood of the Proletariat (from which he'd sprung), that the persistence of this Former Person in the new Russia galled his sense of justice. (source)persistence = continuing existence
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Upon which, wearily, ghostlily, as if they had feather-light fingers and the light persistency of feathers, they would look, once, on the shut eyes, and the loosely clasping fingers, and fold their garments wearily and disappear.† (source)
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Exhausted by her persistence, Louie finally agreed to go, with one caveat: When Graham said, "Every head bowed, every eye closed," they were leaving. (source)persistence = long-continuing effort
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It is necessary that constancy of mind, persistency of purpose, and the grand simplicity of decision shall rule and guide the conduct of the English-speaking peoples in peace as they did in war.† (source)
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Disruptions were enormous, and conflict did not vanish overnight, it persisted and simmered, but reports of its persistence and simmering seemed less than apocalyptic, and while some migrants continued to cling to properties they did not own under the law, and some migrants and some nativists too continued to detonate bombs and carry out knifings and shootings, Saeed and Nadia had the sense that overall, for most people, in Britain at least, existence went on in tolerable safety. (source)persistence = continuing existence
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That was Matthew's way—take a whim into his head and cling to it with the most amazing silent persistency—a persistency ten times more potent and effectual in its very silence than if he had talked it out.† (source)
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What was unusual about Arthur Sallis was the persistence of his desire to make something of his life, in spite of the odds against him. (source)persistence = continuing effort despite difficulties
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Himself reeling from exhaustion, he was astonished beyond measure at such persistency.† (source)
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She was exasperated by the persistence of global crises that seemed to her imminently solvable. (source)persistence = prolonged existence
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I pointed this out to everybody with provoking persistency, but no one seemed equal to the task of providing the doll with eyes.† (source)
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