How To Use Perseverate In A Sentence
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If, following a request to do a new task, he continues to perform the earlier requested action, he has perseverated.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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This propensity to perseverate is sometimes self-destructive, as when I am unable to stop practicing a single piece on the piano or to quit solitaire, but
George A. Akerlof - Autobiography
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This is nothing more than a pot-shot from someone who would've perseverated the discord.
McCain again pans president's Iran response
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Uneasiness may perseverate, developing into intractable feelings that seem insurmountable.
Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Postpartum Depression
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A common perseverated response is for the patient to fold the paper in fourths or eighths.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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Republicans and the shouting class of Falstaffian blowhards -- minus Sir John's winning charm -- perseverated on Bill Ayers and socialism, "domestic terrorists" and dark meetings, and they crapped out.
Kerry Candaele: Barack Obama And Sam Cooke on Election Night
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Also, it is important to note that even in the non-social condition, nearly half of the infants perseverated anyway.
What Babies Pay Attention To
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We perseverate instead, and cannot resolve the conflict or make decisions.
The Chemistry of Calm
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Bitterman and Couvillon found that bees tended to perseverate - to choose the color for which they had most recently been rewarded.
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Unfortunately, the argument is made with such perseverated, autistic-like frequency that even politicians on the Democratic side feel pressured to echo the same sentiments, though sugar-coated catchphrases fully acessorized with vague, impotent reassurances.
Jeanine Molloff: The Character Issue, FISA and The Constitution
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I have a mild frontal lobe disorder that leads me to perseverate, and thus I've continued to work out the theory and do experiments anyway.
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Journalists" seeking to perseverate the entire "controversy" by asking him if he thinks it will continue to be a distraction?
Sanford says it's time to move on, pressed on no wedding ring
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Once, on a trip to visit my husband's parents in Atlanta, I perseverated for hours over whether, upon landing at Hartsfield Airport, we ought to go directly to his parents 'home or stop by and visit a friend first and risk being late.
Delia Lloyd: The Private Language Of Marriage
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If an acquaintance ruffles you, you walk away and mutter "jerk" under your breath, then forget about it; if an intimate hurts you, you perseverate on the offense forever.
Joyce McFadden: Marriage: A Cakewalk
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The subjects in this study perseverated
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One might suggest that the babies in the non-social condition were less likely to perseverate because they were less interested in the game and just didn't learn the connection between the ball and Bucket 1 as well.
Archive 2008-10-01
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And I'm not going to perseverate —or proliferate any programmatic perorations — about the proper spelling of "doughnut.
Drive-by photography — L.A.
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On the medicine, he says he was able to fully shift his attention from one situation to the next rather than perseverate on a previous conversation, and could plan what he was going to do next rather than get distracted by a phone call and forget what he was doing.
Psychiatric Drug Use Spreads
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Hopefully, having written this will discharge my need to perseverate over book covers—at least until the next installment of Jacket Whys sets me off again….
Archive 2009-11-01
