Synonyms for persists
per·sists

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1. List of paraphrases for "persists":

   persisted, continues, lingers, remains, insists, endures

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1. George Bernard Shaw:

   The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

2. Rosa DeLauro:

   First, let me be clear : we should not have to choose between supply and safety, especially when it comes to a product we feed our babies. This product should face the most rigorous standards of safety, to ensure that it is safe to feed our children, the shortage persists because we are overly reliant on one manufacturer to get infant formula back on the shelf.

3. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette:

   Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

4. Assemblymember Susan Eggman:

   It was not exactly a surprise, as we know bigotry of this kind persists, so much as exasperation that it would prove such a waste of state resources.

5. Robert Anson Heinlein:

   The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.