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572 examples of Persistent in a sentence

Third, if you notice a persistent change in your breast, insist on additional imaging.
But he's persistent.
But there was one persistent noise that Jansky couldn't identify, and it seemed to appear in his radio headset four minutes earlier each day.
A mysterious persistent noise was disrupting their research.
And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent of dissatisfaction in modern life.
But private optimism about our own personal future remains persistent.
I mean, it's the people there who are so hardworking, persistent, creative, empowered.
So he was learning many different core principles of design, about how to experiment with new ideas, how to take complex ideas and break them down into simpler parts, how to collaborate with other people on your projects, about how to find and fix bugs when things go wrong, how to keep persistent and to persevere in the face of frustrations when things aren't working well.
And what this quantification showed us is that, upon experiencing a train of these air puffs, the flies appear to enter a kind of state of hyperactivity which is persistent, long-lasting, and also appears to be graded.
But we have this persistent confusion between objectivity and subjectivity as features of reality and objectivity and subjectivity as features of claims.
She couldn't put up with his persistent anger.
Its leash had been tied to the chair as her master went in for coffee, and she was just persistent in her efforts to greet me, perhaps get a scratch behind the ear.
But a small percentage of those who experience trauma have persistent problems —sometimes vanishing temporarily only to resurface months later.
When you think about decades of failed housing policies and poor educational structures, when you think about persistent unemployment and underemployment in a community, when you think about poor healthcare, and then you throw drugs into the mix and duffel bags full of guns, little wonder that you would see this culture of violence emerge.
Research shows that particularly women, people of color and people who openly identify as LGBTQI are likely to be targeted, and for some people, this is a pervasive and persistent part of their reality.
Many of us have suicidal thoughts at some point, but persistent, ongoing thoughts of suicide and devising a means to die are symptoms of pathology, and like many illnesses, the condition has to be recognized and treated before a life is lost.
The depressed phase of bipolar disorder manifests in many ways - a low mood, dwindling interest in hobbies, changes in appetite, feeling worthless or excessively guilty, sleeping either too much or too little, restlessness or slowness, or persistent thoughts of suicide.
Way out in rural Liberia, where most girls have not had a chance to finish primary school, Musu had been persistent.
Albuquerque is now one of the national leaders in combating some of the most stubborn and persistent social issues that we have.
Are you ready to think differently about these persistent social issues?
And one study actually put figures on that, so it looked at children growing up in persistent poverty and how well they were doing at school.
But I didn't waver, and I was persistent, and I eventually convinced one of them to allow the procedure.
Small bits of plastic concentrate persistent organic pollutants up to a million times their levels in the surrounding seawater.
It would be persistent.
And then thirdly, making them persistent.
But what did disturb her was she got very persistent images or hallucinations of faces, and as with Rosalie, the faces were often deformed, with very large teeth or very large eyes.
For one, overpopulation is one of the persistent causes of poverty.
And they're geographically more limited than you are, because we don't know if you've been exposed to persistent organic pollutants in your home, or occupationally or as a child.
The script is somewhat trite but the persistent nature of Wagner's dramatic shortcoming is unfortunately in place throughout, as he is given a free hand to impose his desultory stare at Wood, which must be discouraging to an actress.
The persistent 'grey' spaces throughout the movie were irksome.
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