Both Uses
persevere
in
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
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- Anyone can see with his eyes open that our path will be difficult and also long, but if we persevere together as we did in the two world wars — though not, alas, in the interval between them — I cannot doubt that we shall achieve our common purpose in the end.†
*persevere = keep working at something despite difficulties
- There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain — and I doubt not here also — towards the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(persevere) to keep working at something -- especially despite difficulties
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)