persevere
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The trumpeters valiantly persevere but, by the end of the day, everyone's wrung out.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
Mr. King initially believed the story was going nowhere, though his wife urged him to persevere.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
As the movie amply demonstrates, it took guts for Woodward and Bernstein to persevere with their reporting in the face of terrified sources and their own growing paranoia.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
They’re human; they want and need, betray and boast, and persevere against the unknown in ways that we all are right now.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
This might be one of the things I saw in Rhiannon, too—her desire to persevere.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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