Exist
Persist
Persist verb - To continue despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement.
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- The rules of drama to which you subscribe as a bard tell us that such tyrannies can exist — indeed, must exist — and persist long enough that no one realistically thinks that they can be defeated.
Source: Genre Savvy / Web Comics -
But she doesn't know I exist, no matter how I persist.
Source: Music / Songs for Young Lovers -
Meanwhile, various strains of Americanism, an ideology centered on keeping The American Dream alive, would continue to persist among a number of colonists over subsequent generations, long after the US ceased to exist.
Source: Web Original / Orion's Arm
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