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"Some shows you do, it's just a job. This is literally my life." -Mike Royce

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"Some shows you do, it's just a job. This is literally my life." -Mike Royce

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Examples of perseverance in a Sentence

The great international collectors and curators, once celebrated for their perceptiveness and perseverance, are now regularly deplored as traffickers in, or receivers of, stolen goods. - ... a cavalcade of black and brown and female faces spinning stories of hardship and triumph through perseverance. - ... he had no-nonsense coaches with hearts of gold who taught him discipline; he learned perseverance from a father who sent him back out to fight after he took a licking ... - His Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michelle Cottle, Jack McCallum, perseverance was rewarded: after many rejections, he finally found a job. Perseverance is required to perfect just about any skill. Sports Illustrated, New Republic, New York Review of Books,

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Word History

Middle English perseveraunce, borrowed from Anglo-French parseverance, parsevrance, borrowed from Latin persevērantia, noun derivative of persevērant-, persevērans "persisting in a course of action, steadfast," from present participle of persevērāre "to persist in a course of action or an attitude in spite of opposition, keep on" - more at persevere

14th century, in the meaning defined above

The first known use of perseverance was in the 14th century

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The meaning of PERSEVERANCE is continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition : the action or condition or an instance of persevering : steadfastness. How to use perseverance in a sentence.

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Writing teams as opposed to an individual writer

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Writing teams as opposed to an individual writer