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• s  never-ceasing
• s  continually recurring to the mind
• a  retained; not shed
  persistent leaves remain attached past maturity
  the persistent gills of fishes
• s  stubbornly unyielding

• Slaughterhouse-Five: For Vonnegut, man's worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable.
• The notion that systematic efforts to improve the prowess of slaves by selective breeding have something to do with black athletic achievements is one of the most persistent and .
• As the report's authors state, "addressing the serious and persistent health problems that affect Gulf War veterans as a result of their military service remains the obligation of .

• relentless
• unrelenting
• haunting
• lasting
• dogged
• dour
• pertinacious
• tenacious
• unyielding

• caducous

News & Articles

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• Persistent Systems Named Emerging Technology Finalist in Computerworld Honors Program
  Persistent Systems , the global leader in software product and technology services, today announced it has been named a 2013 Finalist of IDG's Computerworld Honors Program in the Emerging Technology category ...
  June 11, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Ubisoft Announces The Crew, A Persistent Online Racer
  Ubisoft has a new open-world persistent online racer in the works for next-gen consoles entitled The Crew. The trailer showed a pre-rendered trailer of cars being built as they drove. Once the cars were fully assembled, they sped through the streets of a realistic world, traveling through cites, countryside,s and off-road. In The Crew, you are tasked with infiltrating and taking over a criminal ...
  June 10, 2013 - Game Informer
• Persistent rain creates flooding in So. Fla.
  Persistent rain creates flooding in So. Fla.
  June 9, 2013 - 7 News Miami

Quotes

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• Bertie Ahern in MyFox Tampa Bay
  In the most severe cases of persistent non-compliance (countries not complying with stability pact rules), a limitation or suspension of voting rights should be considered. We are now at a stage in which we have to finalize new rules and... Jean-Claude Trichet http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Trichet&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFQ3i5kKC7Jq7XUiVMILRUSPAVq7w Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6680IE20100709&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFG-cqoqxo-2Psprx8Wws7ZHvw9qA Jul 9, 2010 73760 98751 persistent He believes if you have hands-on, persistent engagement then you can have real progress," Ahern told Ireland's state broadcaster RTE.
• Kevin Rudd in Winnipeg Free Press
  The government's security intelligence agencies assess that terrorism has become a persistent and permanent feature of Australia's security environment,Rudd said.