All 7 Uses

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The Namesake
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It is the memory of waiting before he was rescued, and the persistent fear, rising up in his throat, that he might not have been rescued at all.†
Chpt 1
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.†
Chpt 2
Though he will never forget that night, it no longer lurks persistently in his mind, stalking him in the same way.†
Chpt 4 *

persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
He likes its oldness, its persistent grace.†
Chpt 5
That night, lying in the cabin beside Maxine, he is woken by the sound of the phone ringing persistently in the main house.†
Chpt 6

persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
But these days the stale smell of it, in her hair and on her fingertips, and in the bedroom where she sits typing, slightly disgusts him, and from time to time he can't help but have a fleeting vision of himself, tragically abandoned as a result of her mild but persistent addiction.†
Chpt 9
When she'd left the apartment, Nikhil had still been asleep, undisturbed by the persistent beeping of the alarm.†
Chpt 10

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