persistence
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This reflected "the exceptional persistence of heat" so far this summer, Copernicus said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
With an unchanged underweight rating on the stock, analysts Liam Robertson and Charles Strong tell clients in a note that the stock trades as a long-duration claim on the persistence of this pricing premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But persistence has been a hallmark of Wrobleski’s career, dating to his college years, when he infamously bounced back from a car hitting him on a scooter, and a baseball breaking his jaw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Dr. Andrea Brickey, Connot's advisor and a professor in the Department of Mining Engineering and Management at South Dakota Mines, praised both the research and the persistence behind it.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing persistence
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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