What is "persists"

Usage examples of "persists".

This effect persists for a relatively long time, and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses, it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning.

In such a slice, appropriate stimulation of the input pathways will also lead to LTP which persists for as long as the slice can be maintained alive.

Our instrument of knowledge persists in handling even such openly negative terms as the Absolute, the Infinite, as though they were real existences, and when the negative element is ever so little disguised, as it is in such a word as Omniscience, then the illusion of positive reality may be complete.

But Waldman persists in his reluctance to speak of the subject, and only my repeated mention of your interest induced him to say as much to me as he did.

It was the young man who persists in some strange hallucination as to a certain Mademoiselle Violet.