persist
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Because this ice can persist and accumulate over multiple years, it generally becomes thicker and more resilient than ice that forms during a single winter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
The longer diesel cost pressures persist, the more likely they’ll be “baked into contracts between carriers and shippers and eventually find their way into consumer prices,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Gold futures settled lower amid U.S. dollar gains and a rise in oil futures as Middle East tensions persist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
However, he added that while there was no "immediate crisis" in British democracy "there is no guarantee that this will persist".
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The nun would persist, ‘Richard, stand up. Don’t look at the floor. Speak up. Speak to the entire class, not just to me!’
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Fifty years later, the so-called generational communications gap persists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"My theory of victory is simple: we will block the initial attack. If the attack persists, we will blunt it and prevent enemy advance," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
If she persists, you may wish to make it clear that being single and without children does not mean that you have to abide by other people’s wishes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
But as the stars that outline a spiral arm burn out, new stars and their associated nebulae are formed just behind them, and the spiral pattern persists.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The doomsday idea persisted in part because its predictions for future populations turned out to be highly accurate — at least for a while.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
They are charged with "dolo eventual" -- a legal term meaning that a person is aware that their actions could cause harm but persisted nonetheless.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
During the recent international break, many of the ideas we saw during the World Cup and prior have persisted.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even after the arrest of five masked men next to the base, plus a British-Iranian picked up later, the threat persisted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
And when Fyrian persisted, Glerk pretended to take a nap in the calla lily bog and kept his eyes closed until he actually slept.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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Prof Bob Phillips, a paediatric oncologist, says it's key for parents to look out for clusters of symptoms that may be persisting, getting worse or bigger.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
I am 100% aware that you don’t mention money, but it seems like you would be staring a gift horse in the mouth by persisting with this argument.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
“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
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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