as in persistence
the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult
His perseverance was rewarded: after many rejections, he finally found a job. Perseverance is required to perfect just about any skill.
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Recent Examples of perseverance
Your journey through rejection is ultimately a story of perseverance, a testament to your ability to transform adversity into opportunity.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
This reality exposes how claims that whiskey is a uniquely American product—an industry rooted in the frontier, perseverance, and economic independence—are as much industry mythmaking as fact.
— Made By History, Time, 8 Apr. 2025
Advice for the Industry Choudhry has learned the importance of perseverance, strong leadership, and constant innovation over the course of his career.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
This is not a trivial statement, as the phenomenon of belief perseverance, all the more striking when it’s no longer justified, has been studied for a long time.
—David Chauvet, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
This reality exposes how claims that whiskey is a uniquely American product—an industry rooted in the frontier, perseverance, and economic independence—are as much industry mythmaking as fact.
— Made By History, Time, 8 Apr. 2025
Advice for the Industry Choudhry has learned the importance of perseverance, strong leadership, and constant innovation over the course of his career.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
This is not a trivial statement, as the phenomenon of belief perseverance, all the more striking when it’s no longer justified, has been studied for a long time.
—David Chauvet, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for perseverance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perseverance
Noun
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OpenAI recommends including three key reminders in all agent prompts: persistence (keeping going until resolution), tool-calling (using available tools rather than guessing), and planning (thinking before acting).—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Zaragoza’s persistence, and Martinez’s gamble to uproot his family, were massively rewarded in the years that followed.—
Joshua Korber Hoffman,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Home Service Insurance segment experienced a decline in premiums, attributed to strategic actions to improve sales quality and persistency, as well as economic pressures such as inflation.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Home Service Insurance segment experienced a decline in premiums, attributed to strategic actions to improve sales quality and persistency, as well as economic pressures such as inflation.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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Sustainable workplace culture change requires both determination and adaptability.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The song finds Wetmore shedding light on a childhood with a father battling against alcohol and pills, and Wetmore’s resulting desire and determination to forge a different path.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Perseverance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perseverance. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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