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What does insistent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word insistent? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
  2. Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
  3. Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
  4. (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
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But I wasn't surprised that the insistent commercial jingles of her childhood remained embedded in her brain.
The concept is established from the outset with an insistent ticking sound that persists throughout, soon joined by a whomping techno beat.
Two other monitors off to one side emit changing flat colours from their screens, and a dull but insistent techno-type soundtrack.
If Peter were alive today, would I be so loud and insistent in demanding he step down?
The insistent questioners of mainstream practice will not go away and will not be silenced.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.

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