as in persistent
continuing despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement
Margaret Sanger is remembered as an insistent crusader for birth control
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Recent Examples of insistent
Already various people in the train car were becoming familiar to me from their insistent ringtones.
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Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
When Stone grew insistent, protesting she’d recently been targeted for violence, the security chief reluctantly relented.
—Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Some of those orders included painstaking, insistent language usually reserved for defendants who seem unlikely to comply, Samuel Bagenstos, who until December served as general counsel to HHS, told me.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Despite or perhaps because of such baseless claims, Mr. Bongino’s popularity soared as his podcasts and online posts were an insistent drumbeat of doubt about the election results.
—Devlin Barrett, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
When Stone grew insistent, protesting she’d recently been targeted for violence, the security chief reluctantly relented.
—Scott Huver, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
Some of those orders included painstaking, insistent language usually reserved for defendants who seem unlikely to comply, Samuel Bagenstos, who until December served as general counsel to HHS, told me.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
Despite or perhaps because of such baseless claims, Mr. Bongino’s popularity soared as his podcasts and online posts were an insistent drumbeat of doubt about the election results.
—Devlin Barrett, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Insistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insistent. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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