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Definition
persistent or continuing or firm — especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- The horn still sounded from across the water, insistently repeating its urgent message.p. 429.5
- Between classes they hurried through the corridors, not wanting to be ambushed by Martina, and when at lunchtime they spotted Martina lingering near the cafeteria counter, they put off getting their lunches despite the insistent growling in their bellies.p. 195.5
- Let us begin, the Whisperer repeated, more insistently.p. 443.0
There are no more uses of "insistent" in The Mysterious Benedict Society.
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