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Definition
continuing — especially despite difficulties or opposition
- The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.Chapter 4 (75% in)
- Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers, and at the same time feel for the studs over which these fitted.Chapter 10 (91% in)
There are no more uses of "persistent" in The Time Machine.
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