- present tense form of persist (3rd person singular).
persists
Example Sentences
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Along with the technicolor mural, Caland’s singular sensibility persists in scattered drawings, a bouquet of her preferred 30-inch paintbrushes and a pair of stiff-backed pews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The bacterium still persists in natural rodent reservoirs in several regions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
They also suggested the EU should be ready to ask a court to block access to platforms temporarily if necessary "once other powers have been exhausted and where an infringement persists and causes serious harm".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
If the selloff persists, that could start to affect a stock-market rally that has helped support consumer spending and the artificial-intelligence spending boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
And we have done worse than that, because there persists to this day a traffic in the dead bodies of whales.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
