Verb

(en verb)

To go on stubbornly or resolutely.

To repeat an utterance.

To continue to exist.

(computing) To cause to persist; make permanent.

* 2006 , Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming

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.

* 2009 , Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring

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.

Verb

(struggl)

To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.

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*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Tom Fordyce, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.