obstinately

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Recent Examples of obstinately As mentioned previously, Babcock obstinately played a late-career Marleau in significant minutes during his time in Toronto with dragging results. Janson Duench, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Because Cuba’s communist dictatorship assumed absolute control of food production, obstinately clinging to absurdly inefficient economic policies that yielded ever-shrinking amounts of comestibles to consume or export. Carlos Eire, Time, 23 Apr. 2026 On the walk back to the inn, Henry veered off the trail to pick up a fallen branch, gray and forked with one crisp leaf clinging obstinately on. Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obstinately
Adverb
  • And there are signs the economy is still growing at a healthy pace even as inflation stays stubbornly high.
    Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Yet the ongoing disruptions from the Iran war, which have pushed up average gas prices more than 7% from just a month ago, threaten to spread through the economy and keep broader inflation stubbornly high.
    DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFFFROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Adverb
  • The three European countries said that Iran willfully departed from the 2015 nuclear deal that lifted the measures.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Hours later, her parents were arrested in Carter County, Tennessee — more than 350 miles away — and charged with unlawfully placing a child at risk or willfully abandoning a child.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026

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“Obstinately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstinately. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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