"persistently" meaning in English

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      "form": "more persistently",
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          "text": "The small girl persistently asked her father to buy her the doll.",
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          "ref": "1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 38:",
          "text": "One of the most persistently held beliefs about sharks is that they have to stay in motion to stay alive.",
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        "In a persistent manner."
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        {
          "word": "ceaselessly"
        },
        {
          "word": "incessantly"
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        {
          "word": "nonstop"
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        {
          "word": "continuously"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "in a persistent manner",
          "word": "persistentment"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "in a persistent manner",
          "word": "persistentemente"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in a persistent manner",
          "word": "persistentemente"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "in a persistent manner",
          "word": "persistentemente"
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  "word": "persistently"
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      "sense": "in a persistent manner",
      "word": "persistentment"
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      "sense": "in a persistent manner",
      "word": "persistentemente"
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      "sense": "in a persistent manner",
      "word": "persistentemente"
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      "sense": "in a persistent manner",
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