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Six example sentences with pertinacious, each labelled with its topic.
The pertinacious councillor raised the same drainage motion at eleven meetings until the budget finally included the culvert repair.
Politics
Pertinacious to the last, the mapmaker spent thirty years insisting the river forked, and later surveys proved him right.
History
Her pertinacious coach kept her on the same three lifts for a year, ignoring every trend that swept the gym.
Fitness
A pertinacious researcher repeated the failed experiment thirty times, adjusting one variable each run until it worked.
Science
The pertinacious attorney filed the same motion in four courts over six years before a judge finally granted it.
Law
The pertinacious founder pitched the same idea to ninety investors, and the ninety-first wrote the first check.
Startups
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