hardheaded
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Even worse are the hardheaded dollars-and-cents realists of Wall Street who take this new reality as a given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
The hardheaded reader will object that one of these examples isn’t like the others.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
I was hardheaded, self-contained and struggled to show affection toward the people I loved.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
If there are two takeaways from “Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,” a smart and sympathetic but hardheaded new biography by the Toronto journalist Jason McBride, they are these.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
“She did it to herself, you know. She’s always been so hardheaded, that Valerie. Just like me,” she says, and scratches her head with both hands.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
