persist

CEFRB2

/pɚˈsɪst/

verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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You should persist in your efforts to learn English.
Much of this prejudice, indeed, persists; for instance, in the heavy handicappings with which insurance companies saddle their West Indian policies, […]
This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us to persist the settings.

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Much of this prejudice, indeed, persists; for instance, in the heavy handicappings with which insurance companies saddle their West Indian policies, […]
1868, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, page 238
There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history.
1912, Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War
Throughout the period, toothy giants persisted in the oceans. Perhaps the most spectacular was the megalodon shark.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 139
This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us to persist the settings.
2006, Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming
While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.
2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring

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From Middle French persister (Modern French persister), from Latin persistere, from per- + sistere (“to stand”).