persistency

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Recent Examples of persistency 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 The tannins are well structured yet soft and the wine has great persistency in the finish. — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 2 May 2023 Many research scientists view these technologies as therapeutic grief tools, the question is of persistency and its potentially addictive implications? — Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for persistency
  1. persistence
  2. perseverance
  3. tenacity
  4. obstinacy
  5. stubbornness
  6. doggedness
  7. tenaciousness
  8. obduracy
Noun
  • Recognition should acknowledge not only outcomes but also the discipline, persistence and relationship-building that led to them.
    — Karen Cochran, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Therefore, RedHook includes several persistence methods designed to keep Android from shutting it down.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of persistence
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  • Finally, strong communities are forged through collective perseverance and celebrating small milestones, not just final results.
    — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Cucho Hernandez’s perseverance and pinpoint cross to Jaminton Campaz was a top goal at this World Cup.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of perseverance
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  • An example of the 30-year-old’s tenacity is shown below, during the 3-0 round of 32 win against Austria.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Thwarted by England’s tenacity and gregariousness, the twinkle-toed talisman and his team were staring down the barrel of a World Cup exit.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Definition of tenacity
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  • Starmer’s realism—or obstinacy, depending on your point of view—had seen off an immediate challenge.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • The natural obstinacy and rebelliousness of Israa’s teenage years are hyperaccelerated by culture clashes with both her family and the other kids around her.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
Definition of obstinacy
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  • Penelope is Odysseus’ equal, in cunning, in stubbornness, in wiles.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
  • The stubbornness that makes such an elite golfer doesn’t accept that.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of stubbornness
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  • The Afghan Taliban and the Iraqi insurgency beat the United States through roadside bombs and sheer doggedness.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
  • Her doggedness, maybe her righteousness too, a fierce myopic focus and will, and a crazy confidence that in the end, both have nothing to lose.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 15 June 2026
Definition of doggedness
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  • At 6 feet 9 and 255 pounds, Johnson is a unit of a forward, with all the tenaciousness and intensity needed to carve out a pro career.
    — Brendan Marks, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • There was a tenaciousness from Minnesota down the stretch in what ended up being a 75-58 win over Green Bay.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
Definition of tenaciousness
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  • Perhaps the greatest testament to Morocco’s obduracy came late in normal time, when Rodri — a central midfielder being deployed as a central defender — strode forward and shot, more in hope than in expectation, from 35 yards.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But a year later, more than two dozen of them remain stuck in Afghanistan, stalled by bureaucratic wrangling, the vagaries of international diplomacy and the obduracy of the Taliban government.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
Definition of obduracy

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“Persistency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persistency. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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