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How to pronounce “insist”
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Pronunciation guide for insist
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of insist with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
and insist that our schools and our courts and our police departments
- Definition summary
- (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce insist
How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
and insist that our schools and our courts and our police departments
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “insist”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
- (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
- (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
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