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Definition
persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- Thanks to Dave Powers's insistence on making the most of PT-109, John F. Kennedy is elected to Congress.p. 32.4
- Some came to this belief thanks to Oswald's comments and J. Edgar Hoover's insistence that there was a conspiracy.p. 288.5
- Jackie Kennedy was insistent that her husband's funeral be as much like Abraham Lincoln's as possible.p. 302.2
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