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persistence
1. n. The property of being persistent.
You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
2. n. (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
3. n. (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

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I must content my honor with personal bravery, persistence, and my treatment of individuals.  This possibility only highlights the real work the government must do, which is to lobby shareholders and their representatives to take their responsibilities seriously and to realise that the persistence of rewards for failure diminishes rather than enhances the efficiency of the market.  At a time when the most admired composers seem often to be those with the persistence to make a lot out of a little, there should be space for the profligates who stagger through, scattering original ideas around, and, from time to time, coming up with real pearls.

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