Remained
Struggled
Remained and struggled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Remained" instead a verb "Struggled".
Nearby Words: struggle, struggling
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This was particularly devastating to him, since he himself had struggled with an attraction to Daphne for years but always quashed it and remained steadfastly faithful while he and Maris were together.
Source: Your Cheating Heart -
Welles struggled to make movies for the rest of his career, even a brief attempt to make a comeback like 1958's Touch of Evil led to Executive Meddling and he remained in the margins of Europe and independent films.
Source: Creator / Orson Welles - The Reveal of Halo 5: Guardians pulls this with your AI companion Cortana, who in the previous game remained the Chief's friend even as her digital body collapsed and she struggled to remain sane, eventually doing a Heroic Sacrifice with the last of her strength.
Source: Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
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