insistent
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Survival has its own language—quieter than we expect, but no less insistent.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
The phrase is self-explanatory, but Ms. Farr is insistent, so in her reading the woman polishes silver “until it gleamed.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
And Emery was insistent that his players had delivered a "complete" performance.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Moving the Notre Dame game to the beginning of the season seems fair to everyone, even if Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua seems insistent on keeping USC as their season savior.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025
Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing insistent
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