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Synonyms for insist

persist

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Synonyms for insist

to take and maintain a stand obstinately

to solicit (something) insistently

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insist on: to ask for urgently or insistently

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Synonyms for insist

be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

beg persistently and urgently

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assert to be true

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Another thing that has been insisted upon at the school is the use of the tooth-brush.
Absolute cleanliness of the body has been insisted upon from the first.
When the princess came to them, they were sitting side by side on the chest, sorting the dresses and disputing over Kitty's wanting to give Dunyasha the brown dress she had been wearing when Levin proposed to her, while he insisted that that dress must never be given away, but Dunyasha must have the blue one.
Not only did she bid him take plenty but she insisted on his taking any amount extra that he might desire at any time through the week.
STEVE Bruce has insisted Sean Longstaff wil not be sold this summer - despite Manchester United sources insisting the Red Devils will return with a big bid before the window shuts for business, writes LEE RYDER.
Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak conceded today that money meant for tax refunds should have been put into a trust account but insisted he had the power to divert these elsewhere.
To my regret she insisted that the dove come white.
Making a rare visit to the region, he insisted life is better now than before the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats took office.
BAGHDAD / NINA / Prime Minister Nuri al -Maliki said House Speaker Osama Nujaifi insisted on not to display the names of candidates for the defense and interior ministries in the House of Representatives .
THE family of a blue-eyed, fair-haired girl taken into care by police in the Republic last night insisted: "She's our girl."
hough mpions Capello also insisted that he had never encountered racism within the England camp.
KENNY DALGLISH today insisted everyone at Anfield would be sticking together in the face of the club''s worst run of results in 22 years.
Sisevic also refused to accept his club's fans were in the wrong over the abuse dished out to Gers stars and insisted Rangers supporters owed Zeta an apology.
In what has to be considered one of the most chilling examples to date of the Bush administration's callous and dangerous disregard for fundamental rights, on January 18 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted that U.S.
Manager Steve Coppell always insisted he was a quiet character who was dedicated to his game and Lita insists: "Criticism doesn't exist for me.