PERSIST IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does persist in mean? 

• PERSIST IN (verb)
  The verb PERSIST IN has 1 sense:

1. do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop

  Familiarity information: PERSIST IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSIST IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

continue; persist in

Context example:

The landlord persists in asking us to move

Hypernyms (to "persist in" is one way to...):

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Verb group:

continue; keep; keep on; retain (allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

If they persist in the scheme, they will find something.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is the first island of this type to erupt and persist in the modern satellite era, it gives scientists an unprecedented view from space of its early life and evolution.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

A focus of residual alveoli that persist in the mouse mammary gland following hormone stimulation

(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The densest and heaviest ice thought to persist in Ganymede is called "Ice VI."

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)

Forgive me; and if you persist in indifference, do not make me your confidante.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

POPs are slow to break down, may persist in water and air, and may be passed through the food chain.

(Persistent organic pollutants in maternal blood linked to smaller fetal size, National Institutes of Health)

Studies of subglacial lakes may contain clues as to how microbial life might persist in the outer solar system, where ice-covered moons orbit the larger planets.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

That is because more water vapor would be able to persist in the atmosphere of the hypothetical planet and act as a buffer to keep surface conditions comfortable.

(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)

"If you really persist in your generous view," said the Professor, "I should found a private museum, which has long been one of my dreams."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)