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The Spanish word

persistir

means
to persist
Examples:
Persiste en su opinión.
He persists in his opinion.
Él siempre persistió en sus errores.
He always persisted in his errors.
La dama persistía en ponerse esa camisa pasada de moda.
The lady persisted in wearing such an old-fashioned shirt.
Es mejor cambiar de opinión, que persistir en una equivocada.
It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org