Usually means: Continues to exist or endure.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. persists: Merriam-Webster
  2. persists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. persists: Vocabulary.com
  4. Persists, persists: Wordnik
  5. persists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. persists: Wiktionary
  7. persists: Dictionary.com
  8. persists: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. persists: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persists: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. persists: Idioms

(Note: See persist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (persist)

verb:  (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
verb:  (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
verb:  (intransitive) To continue to exist.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, obsolete) To continue to be; to remain.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.
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