persist
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Allegations of corruption against the prime minister's close relatives still persist, all denied.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
“We expect the current environment to persist until memory availability and prices begin to normalize,” Tan said Thursday during a call with analysts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Despite the current breather, risks of higher bond yields continue to persist, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
And to the extent the occupation is a root cause of the tensions and violence in the area, its problems will persist.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Caution persists regarding potential new waves of volatility in French government bonds, or OATs, “given uncertainties about next protests, budget negotiations and investors not yet keen to add a lot of risk,” they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He has been under house arrest in the capital, Juba, since March last year as fighting persists in some areas of the country.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Sports fishermen might celebrate the arrival of unusual fish, but “if it persists, it’s a serious event for the birds and for the plankton.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The longer this coherence persists, the better the emitter can perform in applications that depend on precise interactions with light.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls ‘the soul,’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him ...”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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These limits resolve a question that had persisted despite increasingly advanced observations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Concerns over Russian supplies persisted after Ukrainian drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Despite a two-year transition period to prepare for the takeover, problems have persisted and by February the backlog had grown to 120,000 cases.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
In East Timor, unhealthy air pollution persisted on Saturday, including in the capital Dili, according to IQAir.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
“I’m too old to do everything,” Mr. Lew persisted.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
And the report highlighted the dangerous combination of persisting financial vulnerabilities and the "exuberant risk appetite" in financial markets, warning the situation "could unwind abruptly".
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 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
I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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