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- bloody-mindedness
- rigidity
- intractability
- insubordination
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- disobedience
- unruliness
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And that bloody-mindedness seems to be a bargaining strategy.—
Nathan Hodge,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025 -
Stamp was a true original, a shapeshifter, a tough guy, and a charmer; one of the rare working-class British actors left who survived a childhood during the blitz and channeled bloody-mindedness, raw talent, and strong instincts.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Great leaders read beyond the surface and adapt their approach, steering with intention rather than rigidity.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
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Place it by a fire pit, pool, or deck for the summer season, and lounge comfortably for hours without the rigidity of wicker or metal frames.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2026
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Their stories live on in Sardinian lore with an almost mythical quality, the brigands admired for their intractability.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
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But Bass and every council member and all their successors need to be reminded that a civic sense of intractability is a dangerous thing.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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When creating their own version of the character, the developers at IOI sought to emphasize that insubordination as a gameplay tool, grounding it in this Bond’s age-specific propensities.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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That reprimand — for insubordination — eventually led to Rosen’s departure from the office in March.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
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The pseudo-goth hair and costume choices speak to an inner rebelliousness that isn’t so much unleashed as forced loose by a system that values the appearance of a mythical impartiality over her humanity, leaving her with little recourse but to step outside the confines of the law.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2026
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The natural obstinacy and rebelliousness of Israa’s teenage years are hyperaccelerated by culture clashes with both her family and the other kids around her.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As Holland recently alluded to in an interview with the Kings’ Zach Dooley and Jared Shafran, that recalcitrance could complicate the Kings’ timeline.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
25 May 2026
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Apple’s always emerging — from a depressive fog, from some volcanic fugue, from recalcitrance, from fear, from disappointment, from being too inside herself.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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There is zero tolerance for political disobedience.—
Daniel Drake,
The New York Review of Books,
16 May 2026
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He was also booked on fresh charges of felony vandalism, battery against a former dating partner and willful disobedience of a court order.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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In 2024, Buffett offered prescient reflections on the unruliness of the market, long before the prediction markets began to sway Wall Street.—
Jacqueline Munis,
Fortune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Their sprawl and unruliness, their capacity to be anything.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Cussedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cussedness. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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