persist
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The South Korean technology titan expects the memory-chip shortage to persist through 2028, positioning the memory-chip maker to extend its streak of record earnings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Despite the market’s concerns about the longevity of the current chip boom, Samsung still forecasts a major supply-demand deficit to persist into 2027, as growth in agentic AI augments the huge buildout of AI infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Though the heatwave will come to a quick end for many on Thursday, well above-average temperatures in the mid- to high 20s Celsius will persist into the weekend.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Nonetheless, Kim forecast memory chip prices are likely to rise "at least 30 percent in the third quarter" with supply shortages likely to persist through to 2028.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
We tend to assume that useful technologies, once acquired, inevitably persist until superseded by better ones.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The longer the BOJ persists in its go-slow approach, the more dangerous the currency market becomes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Forecasters are calling for a slow cooling trend starting Sunday but warned that temperatures would still be above normal and would remain that way for the foreseeable future as the high pressure persists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Interest in the Backrooms persists precisely because they lack a fixed mythology, geographical reality, or narrative history, allowing users to construct meaning around places that, nonetheless, feel uncannily familiar.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Canadians are enduring potentially hazardous air as a record-smashing North American heat wave persists.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
But it persists still through the whole night.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Price pressures persisted, however, with inflation remaining above the central bank’s 2% target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Her health concerns persisted even when smoke from the stubborn fire, which burned for more than a week, was replaced with the smells of rotting meat and other frozen foods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The pattern persisted until artificial light changed the economics of the night: gas lamps began lighting London's streets in 1807, people stayed up later, the gap between the two sleeps narrowed and eventually closed.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
According to his analysis, this group may have persisted for around 35 million years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
After the Supreme Court declared separate schools inherently unequal in 1954, segregation persisted unabated.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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“Emerging Markets continued to deliver despite the Chinese condom headwinds still persisting with broad-based momentum extending well beyond China,” they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
If Sapiens women had, in fact, regularly entered Neanderthal groups, we would expect to see a recent genetic signal of Sapiens ancestry persisting among the last Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
With the heat persisting into Tuesday across south-eastern areas, some locations may enter official heatwave conditions with temperatures above 27C or 28C for three consecutive days.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The IEA’s own worst-case scenario projects deficits persisting all year, with cumulative losses approaching 2 billion barrels by December.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
The sago eaters persisting in lowland swamps exemplify the nomadic hunter-gatherer band organization that must formerly have characterized all New Guineans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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