intransigent
Example Sentences
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It’s both a possibly sophisticated performance enhancer and the scourge of picky eaters, brand new to elite endurance athletes, but all too familiar to generations of intransigent five-year-olds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
But the Kandahar-based leadership has remained intransigent, and there has been no public breaking of ranks with the supreme leader’s diktats.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024
Decency and sanity demand that we address these catastrophes, however massive and intransigent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024
That stance is more intransigent than the one adopted by Saudi Arabia’s neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, another major oil and gas producer.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2023
He had scolded Ifemelu as a child for being recalcitrant, mutinous, intransigent, words that made her little actions seem epic and almost prideworthy.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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