persist
per sist
- v continue to exist
- v be persistent, refuse to stop
he persisted to call me every night
The child persisted and kept asking questions - v stay behind
- They see him as a man who cannot only repair the growing divide between Democrats and Republicans but also ease racial tensions that persist more than four decades after Martin .
- Though the official cause of death was an allergic reaction to aspirin, rumors persist that he died as a result of an evil curse; his home in Hong Kong was said to have been .
- Kingston inspired me to persist as a writer, despite a Hong Kong society that dismissed such endeavors (especially those of a "maybe-Chinese" writing in English).