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記き者しゃは首しゅ相しょうに食くい下さがって質しつ問もんを続つづけた。

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記き者しゃ

reporter; journalist

首しゅ相しょう

prime minister; premier; chancellor

noun

direction, time, indirect object, or target marker

食くい下さがっ

cling to; hang on to; persist; hound; refuse to back down; sumo technique: grab the mawashi and lower one's hips

-> 食い下がるgodan verb

connective te-form

質しつ問もん

question; inquiry

noun, suru verb, no-adjective

continue; keep doing; keep up

-> 続けるichidan verb, auxiliary

past tense or completed action