perseveration
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Durvasula added that "stubbornness could be viewed as a form of perseveration, again, an executive function in the brain."
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023
Still, with Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell and Liz Phair as his “Inner White Girl” inspirations, Jackson writes songs that sting, his lyrics merging poetry and perseveration.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
Instead, by a principle you might call the perseveration of enmity, a new population stepped in to take up the slack: mostly middle-class Protestants from other suburbs now mixing with ours at a new school.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2021
This was not an isolated bout of verbal perseveration.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015
This form of recall goes by the name of perseveration, and a good instance of it is the "running of a tune in the head", shortly after it has been heard.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.
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