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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are persisting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing action or state that continues over time.
Example: "Despite the challenges, the issues are persisting, and we need to address them promptly."
Alternatives: "are continuing" or "are ongoing".
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Droughts also are persisting or intensifying elsewhere in the west.
"Whispers are persisting, whispers," Rush Limbaugh said, in anything but a whisper, several months ago on his radio program.
The People's Bank of China said: "Currently, there are persisting downward pressures on the country's economic growth.
"The cyclical and policy challenges we face in our major markets are persisting for longer than we expected," the chief executive, John Fallon, said.
So, rather than trying to further parse the payroll numbers, let's look, for once, at the distributional data in the report, which shows that a great deal of variation and inequity are persisting, despite the over-all improvement.
That La Niña is now over, according to scientists, but the patterns of atmospheric circulation that were associated with it are persisting, which could account for some of the drought.
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are persisted in the Elgg back-end database.
Nowadays the remnants of the primary forest vegetation are persisted in small locations only.
Once done, they are persisted into the WinFS store.
Session-IDs are persisted with cookies.
Still, Ms. Konrad is persisting.
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