Simple past tense and past participle of persist.(verb)
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Use "persisted" in a sentence
"It seems what has persisted is not the material substance but rather the form or "software"."
"When the pain persisted Friday, Bosh sat down to avoid further injury."
"The name persisted in human memory in our part of the world albeit with a slight modification while in the west it was confined only to cuneiform tablets."