insist on/upon

idiom

1

: to say or show that one believes that something is necessary or very important

My source insisted on anonymity.

She insists on doing everything her own way.

2

informal : to continue doing (something that other people think is annoying or unimportant)

The people sitting next to us insisted on talking during the entire movie.

Examples of insist on/upon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Owners that don’t like to spend, that insist on yielding outsized personnel power, that threaten to move or hold their city’s taxpayers’ feet to the fire, that treat their franchises as a vehicle for passive income, can doom a team for decades. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2025

When buying physical gold, insist on documentation of purity and authenticity. —Gabriel O Rodríguez, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025

What kind of monster would insist upon something like that? —Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025

The Saudis in particular insist on all possible angles being covered in an extraordinary amount of detail. —Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025