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persist

[per-sist, -zist] / pərˈsɪst, -ˈzɪst /


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Morgan Stanley raised its price target for the stock from $434 to $499, outlining that as long as supply is tight and Dell’s execution remains strong, these “blowout” quarterly reports are poised to persist.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

Kwak noted that the semiconductor shortage could persist through the end of 2030, two years longer than Samsung Electronics projected in July.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Ghodla and Ilie investigated whether the descendants of such ancient seeds could persist through cosmic time, grow alongside their host galaxies, eventually pair up, and generate the gravitational wave background detected billions of years later.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

And Mulcahy’s research, as well as other studies, suggest that a post-travel high can persist for up to four months.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

But of course those memories would persist with or without the picture of the pond.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Still, Islamophobia persists in the city where around nine percent of the population is Muslim.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

"This work points to a completely different way of testing their possible role in cosmic history. Their descendants could leave a gravitational-wave imprint that persists all the way to the present-day Universe."

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

With Iraola determined to have his wingers able to play on both sides, it remains to be seen if that experiment persists once Liverpool get more attackers in.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

“Nick cannot show that Mr. Kanin’s conduct — rather than the unresolved legal question that persists under an entirely different trustee — caused any delay in his receipt of the distribution.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Primary thoroughfares have a way of persisting through the indignities of time—though Manhattan Island has been entirely resurfaced by human hands, the old Indian trail through it persists as Broadway.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The local suppression of abolitionist mail persisted throughout the antebellum era during the administrations of Jackson’s eight successors, none of whom enforced the federal statute prohibiting detention of the mail.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

That genetic pattern has persisted for roughly 9,000 years, dating back to the rise of agriculture.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

A strong pace of inflows has persisted since then, even as the ETF briefly touched its lowest price since 2004.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

The pattern has persisted across the continental United States this summer but has been especially dramatic in coastal Southern California, Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

It would soon be dusk, but the heat persisted.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

After six months of war, the foes remain at an impasse, with Iran keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed and the United States persisting with a counter-blockade of Iranian ports.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 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

—Use incognito or private browsing mode, which prevents cookies from persisting between sessions and makes it harder for sites to recognize you as a returning visitor, though many sites have tracking mechanisms other than cookies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

Once China was finally unified, in 221 B.C., no other independent state ever had a chance of arising and persisting for long in China.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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