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perseverate
verb[ I ]
psychology specializeduk /pəˈsev.ə.reɪt/ us /pɚˈsev.ɚ.eɪt/
to say or do something repeatedly when there is no longer any reason to do so:
The children would tend to perseverate by using the same answer for all of the questions.
They adopted a strategy for the first task and simply perseverated when they were given something different to do.
I don't want to perseverate by making any further comments on this thread.
The patient would often perseverate or make long, incoherent speeches.
Some children perseverated on errors that they had been making for a long time.
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bingeable
blitz
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here we go (again)idiom
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