obstinate
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"Just an obstinate love of being on stage and performing," Banks answered.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Her critical “confidence . . . is thrillingly anachronistic: obstinate, sure, but warming, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
While the central meaning of all this has yet to be revealed, Seehorn’s performance of Carol’s obstinate loneliness is wrenchingly genuine to anyone who has ever felt alone in a sea of smiling strangers.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025
Chida was born scrappy — heso magari, literally translated from Japanese as a crooked belly button, a phrase that connotes a contrarian and obstinate nature, his mother said in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024
Macklin and McIlroy, the doctors, tried to get him to slow down, but he was obstinate.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing obstinate
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