All 6 Uses of
persist
in
Outliers
- The small initial advantage that the child born in the early part of the year has over the child born at the end of the year persists.†
Chpt 1 *persists = continues
- It persists.†
Chpt 1
- They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.†
Chpt 6persist = continue
- Think of the way accents persist over time.†
Chpt 6
- He knew that cultural legacies matter, that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed.†
Chpt 7
- But Renee persists.†
Chpt 8persists = continues
Definition:
to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question