as in stubbornly
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Adverb
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Homebuyers’ attitudes toward the housing market today stem from stubbornly high mortgage rates and home prices.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Jimbōchō is very retro and a bit dusty but has boho charm to spare, remaining stubbornly independent in the face of the globalization’s homogenizing force.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Oct. 2025
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Often sustainability no longer implies that slave labor wasn’t deployed, or that there hasn’t been a purposeful reduction in the tuna population, but instead that there has been some vague dialogue entered into about not willfully raping the planet.—
Louis J. Esterhazy,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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And suggesting that Dustin Johnson and Patrick Reed should be on a Ryder Cup team in 2025 is both willfully obtuse and indicative of a person looking back, not forward.—
Hugh Kellenberger,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Obstinately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstinately. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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