STUBBORNLY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

stubbornly

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Definition of stubbornly

as in obstinately

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Recent Examples of stubbornly This stock has lagged in 2026 as mortgage rates stay stubbornly high and hold back housing activity. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 July 2026 Despite the measures, though, the presence of immigration agents around Cook County courthouses is stubbornly persistent, according to a Tribune review of a tracker maintained by the Cook County public defender’s office. — Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026 What begins as a history play transforms into a sharp-eyed satire about the cost of assimilation in a society where money, power and white privilege remain stubbornly intertwined. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 On that note, resist the urge to bury discomfort by indulging, shopping or being stubbornly silent. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026 Yet many of the challenges schools face today—student disengagement, widening achievement gaps, and the demand for more personalized learning—remain stubbornly persistent. — Lisa Schade, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Nonno had abandoned the family profession and become a sculptor instead; Lu Leccisu and San Gaetano were the last fragments that Nonno had stubbornly held onto, more for their aesthetic and ecological qualities than any other reason. — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026 That number has remained stubbornly static, aggravating inhumane consequences of long-term homelessness. — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 Part of the issue is that credit card interest rates have remained stubbornly high despite multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts late last year, and at the current average rate of nearly 22%, many card users are paying hundreds of dollars each month in interest alone. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 26 June 2026

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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, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of obstinately

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Yet there is something singularly unbecoming about a franchise as American as Superman (and its adjuncts) being willfully stripped of its patriotism and good cheer.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
The letter also warns that anyone who knowingly and willfully gives false information in registering to vote or voting would face criminal prosecution.

— Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of willfully

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Selling cigarettes on the street to buy food for her siblings, the pre-teen is indefatigably upbeat, eagerly anticipating an imminent passage to Germany.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2026
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

Definition of indefatigably

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Back home in Wilmington, Cynthia Brown built community the way her forebears had built houses—tirelessly and elegantly in the course of years.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
For example, a sales team fixated on cold-call conversion works tirelessly to lift that number when the better move may be to retire cold-calling altogether—something the metric can only score as failure.

— Sophie Ren, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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