begrudgingly
Example Sentences
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While some fans were lucky enough to nab $28 tickets, others begrudgingly spent more than they budgeted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
I begrudgingly watched the City fans and players love every moment of their League Cup victory as I shuffled out of Wembley.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
The governor begrudgingly signed the AI bill into law in 2024, but hoped a revised, less burdensome version could serve as a model for a broader federal regulatory framework.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Wainwright said he retired from his most recent job at the East of England Ambulance Service in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, in 2020, and begrudgingly took on the role of house husband.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
The one scientist they did revere, if begrudgingly, was Linus Pauling—the larger-than-life Caltech chemist who had recently announced that he had solved an important conundrum in the structure of proteins.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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