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English word

insist

B2Frequent NGSL-2
UK /ɪnˈsɪst/US /ɪnˈsɪst/
verb

to demand that something happen or that somebody agree to do something

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Han Kang's Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (2024) video example

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It insists on imagining into the first-person perspectives of the people and living beings that inhabit us, one another.

Han Kang's Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (2024)

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But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me.

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