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persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- Early the next morning, I strapped my oversized green sleeping bag, my military backpack, and, upon Grandmother's unwavering insistence, a coffee can containing her homemade snickerdoodle cookies onto my motorcycle.p. 158.8
- At first Grandmother was insistent that I had borrowed the money from her.p. 254.4
- Jerry had been insistent about my returning to Lincoln Saturday afternoon so that he could finally answer the concerns I had face to face.p. 277.1
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