budge
Example Sentences
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Combined, they are unlikely to budge the Federal Reserve from its current wait-and-see approach to interest rates.
My new neighbor doesn’t look annoyed anymore, but she also hasn’t budged from the doorway.
From Literature
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In an early warning sign that the internet bubble was about to burst, the stock barely budged on the first day of trading.
The Scandinavian blocking area of high pressure is finally going to budge this week, allowing our weather to turn colder with some hill snow in the north later this week.
From BBC
Daddy was losing any sign of sadness or sympathy, his voice was getting louder and harder, and he was not budging.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.