stick with
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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In a wide-ranging interview, Williamson tells Kelly Somers she considered turning her back on football as a teenager before a conversation with her mum convinced her to stick with it.
From BBC
“But as money rotates into more insulated sectors, anything with even a whiff of disruption risk is getting hit. That creates potential opportunity for some investors, while others will stick with slow-and-steady indexing.”
From Barron's
Some technology executives are still sticking with the old terminology.
Then he took a stick with bristles at one end and combined the colored goo together in the middle, creating new colors.
From Literature
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“If they don’t learn it and it doesn’t stick with them I know it’s not good enough. Then I redo it. They’re very much my little co-creators.”
From Los Angeles Times
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