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How to pronounce “persistent”
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Pronunciation guide for persistent
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of persistent with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Body Toxic
UN's persistent organic pollutants
- Definition summary
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce persistent
The Body Toxic

UN's persistent organic pollutants
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “persistent”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
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