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Recent Examples of stubbornly
A number of factors have kept prices stubbornly high, including widespread drought and the reemergence of a flesh-eating screwworm in Mexican cattle.
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Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
Faced with climbing prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates, buyers started withdrawing from the market this year.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Average transaction prices for new vehicles remain stubbornly high.
—Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Stock futures rose on Monday, even as the CBOE Volatility Index, known as Wall Street's fear gauge, remained stubbornly above the 20 handle.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
Some like-minded conservatives stubbornly point to Trump’s, and congressional Republicans’, support for tax cuts, deregulation and limited spending cuts as proof that not much has changed.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Duran had published articles on Tan and his wealthy colleagues, like Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor who was promoting an esoteric but stubbornly influential concept called the Network State.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
But too low interest rates can push upward on inflation, which has already been stubbornly stuck above the Fed’s 2% target.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 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
Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
Faced with climbing prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates, buyers started withdrawing from the market this year.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Average transaction prices for new vehicles remain stubbornly high.
—Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Stock futures rose on Monday, even as the CBOE Volatility Index, known as Wall Street's fear gauge, remained stubbornly above the 20 handle.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
Some like-minded conservatives stubbornly point to Trump’s, and congressional Republicans’, support for tax cuts, deregulation and limited spending cuts as proof that not much has changed.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Duran had published articles on Tan and his wealthy colleagues, like Balaji Srinivasan, a tech investor who was promoting an esoteric but stubbornly influential concept called the Network State.
—Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
But too low interest rates can push upward on inflation, which has already been stubbornly stuck above the Fed’s 2% target.
—Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stubbornly
Adverb
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The president was charged in 2023 with willfully retaining national defense information.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Matthew Restall, for example, has worked indefatigably as a myth buster for dozens of misconceptions for roughly two decades now, and only recently did another historian, Camilla Townsend, stitch together the history of the Aztecs according to their own statements, as recorded in Nahuatl.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Út and his attorney dispute the findings of Knight’s team and steadfastly maintain that Út took the photo.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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Sliwa, the colorful founder of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, has steadfastly refused calls to drop out from both Cuomo and his supporters.—
Anthony Izaguirre,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Benjamin Franklin, for example, worked tirelessly over the eight years between 1775 and 1783 to kindle the civil war within the British Empire into a worldwide blaze.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Ty Gee concluded his message by acknowledging the doctors in Las Vegas who worked tirelessly to save his father and by confirming the legitimacy of the family’s GoFundMe page, which will now help with burial expenses.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Stubbornly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stubbornly. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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