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What does perseverate mean?

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Verb
  1. (psychology) To persist in doing something; to continue to repeat an action after the original stimulus has ended.
  2. (psychology) To cause the perseveration of (a given reflex or response).
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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.
Volatility led industry analysts to perseverate on production updates that overshadowed the numbers.
Sam tends to perseverate on certain objects, like his Toy Story inspired pillow, during which, it went everywhere with him.
There are so many ways the ego tries to dismantle real love, and its favorite is to perseverate on a single question until it tires itself out.
Some critics seemed to perseverate on the movie's lack of followthrough in fleshing out the religious and philosophical undertones it introduced.

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