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Definition
to continue — often despite difficulty
- 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.Chapter 1 (67% in)
- It persists.Chapter 1 (74% in)
- 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.Chapter 6 (90% in)
- Think of the way accents persist over time.Chapter 6 (96% in)
- He knew that cultural legacies matter, that they are powerful and pervasive and that they persist, long after their original usefulness has passed.Chapter 7 (92% in)
- But Renee persists.Chapter 8 (81% in)
There are no more uses of "persist" in Outliers.
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