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insistent

 adjective
     
in‧sis‧tent
1 demanding firmly and repeatedly that something should happen
insistent that
She was insistent that they should all meet for dinner.
insistent on
They were insistent on good manners.
2 making a continuous pattern of sounds that is difficult to ignore:
the music's insistent rhythm
—insistently adverb:
The bell rang again insistently.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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