as in static
incapable of moving or being moved
the massive old bed was simply unbudging, despite our best efforts
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Recent Examples of unbudging
Automakers should read from this trend the unbudging fact that American consumers don’t want to give up full-sized cars.
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Marty Jerome, WIRED, 26 July 2007
Marty Jerome, WIRED, 26 July 2007
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbudging
Adjective
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Merging dining and design offers more product interaction than the static and leisurely pace of traditional furniture retail.—
John Wogan,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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Zhang further explained that traditional anti-jamming techniques rely on static assumptions and often fail in rapidly changing conditions, causing serious performance losses.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Not at all motionless essence, but endless motion.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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The video, which bears a watermark suggesting it was livestreamed on the video platform Kick, showed Jackson straddling Smith before repeatedly punching him in the face and the side of his head, even when Smith was lying motionless.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If an alpha wolfs out under a full moon, they get stuck in that form forever and are doomed to be hunted and killed by their fellow werewolves.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The contraction has been particularly brutal for Hollywood’s production assistants, many of whom are feeling stuck at what is supposed to be the starting line of their careers.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Wobbling through space The Earth’s axis, which is an imaginary line running through the North and South Poles, is in constant motion, even though it is commonly depicted as a fixed line.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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Many of the residents are low-wage workers, immigrant families with young children or elderly and disabled people on a fixed income.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Prosecutors said police later identified Korosa from a community bulletin containing a still image from the CTA surveillance video.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Still, the richest, most enduring pleasures here are formal ones, beginning with the exacting still-life compositions and oily, vehement primary hues of Jenkins’ 16mm lensing, which can make a painterly subject of a maritime squall or a mustard-yellow wading boot.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Male silverbacks were virtually immovable, acting as the displacing animal in more than 99% of interactions.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
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The not-in-my-backyard, or NIMBY, mindset was thought to be an immovable obstacle—support in theory, opposition in practice.—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Unbudging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbudging. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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