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  • n  the state of demanding notice or attention
  • n  the act of insisting on something

  • It was to answer this insistency that industrial chemists met at Pittsburgh last week.
  • With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars.
  • Their warnings were valid enough, though the words had a dreary propaganda sameness, and the flat insistency of a war-bond speech.

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