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persist

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


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With memory prices expected to remain high for the foreseeable future, higher device prices look likely to persist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

That means higher interest rates are also likely to persist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Thus, if disruptions persist into spring 2027 or oil infrastructure damage intensifies, ICE Brent front month contracts may have to spike well above $150/bbl to curb global oil demand.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Drier and warmer conditions will likely persist in east and south-east England with temperatures once again reaching the mid-20s Celsius.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“In this one, it theorizes that dragons aren’t magical at all but are just normal animals that ancient people thought were magical. And the legends persist to this day.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

The bacterium still persists in natural rodent reservoirs in several regions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The fever persists despite the fact there’s no antigens left to fight.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

If the selloff persists, that could start to affect a stock-market rally that has helped support consumer spending and the artificial-intelligence spending boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

That uncertainty has persisted because earlier observational research has produced mixed results, particularly for older vitamin K antagonist drugs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

It started a blockade and a devastating air campaign that persisted until a 2022 truce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

"In Western Sahara, displacement has persisted for more than half a century," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih, himself a former refugee, told the UN Security Council.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Singh, a former international-level sport shooter, said women in Bihar were advancing in many areas but concerns about their safety persisted.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“Don’t know,” he persisted, still smiling, and still looking at Elizabeth, “tell me folks do things up North they wouldn’t think about doing down home.”

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Since the Aug. 19 announcement, the 20-year maturity sector has outperformed both on the curve and in swap spreads, with these effects persisting even as long-end yields have risen above their preannouncement levels, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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 recent rotation into memory and other semiconductor names, market leadership is increasingly predicated on current supply-and-demand dynamics persisting.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 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




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