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  • adjective Common misspelling of persistent.

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Examples

  • So, people use the term persistant vegetative state.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005 2005

  • Her husband, Michael Schiavo, says that he knows that its her wish that she not go on living in a state that has been described as persistant vegetative, permanent vegetative state, a condition from which it as my understanding no one has been able to reverse

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005 2005

  • February 1990 Terri Schiavo collapsed at her home and entered what doctors called a persistant vegetative state.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2005 2005

  • Minister of Justice and Freestate NP leader, Kobie Coetsee, identified as the persistant stonewaller.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Apparently an INspector can authorise these to become 'persistant' meaning we don't have to attend and take details to the following day when they inevitably turn up.

    The Policeman's Blog 2006

  • Those "persistant" critics are our longest standing allies.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • Have a look at "selkie test" for a demo. loading plugins as actions works for simple cases loading javascript files from plugins works showing and hiding action button (parenturls + wildcards matching, works) triggering (parenturls and wildcards work) actions should have a "persistant" flag to execute them on every new page load, within a context

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Today was hovering around the mid-forties with sunbreaks and a persistant breeze that didn't quite chill a person but took the steam off your coffee in a minute.

    The Novella joshenglish 2009

  • I do not want heroic efforts made to prolong my life, and I do not want life-sustaining treatments to be providedor continued if: (1) I am irrever sible coma or persistant vegetative state, or (2) if I am terminally ill and the use of life-sustaining procedures would serve only to artificially delay the moment of my death, (3) under any other circumstances where the burdens of the treatment outweigh the expected benifits.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Chozen’s Review Forum 2009

  • I loved it as it always bothered me that Penelope seemed so uncomplaining and patient in the face of her husband’s extended absence and persistant infidelity.

    Maggie O'Farrell - An interview with author 2010

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