stubbornness

Example Sentences

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The administration’s stubbornness in this instance eventually pushed the question of Abrego Garcia’s deportation to the Supreme Court, when the justices upheld an order that required the government to facilitate his return to the U.S.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

And with a daring display of prime ministerial authority along with a big dose of political stubbornness, Sir Keir has kept an awful lot of those options on the table for now at least.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

A similar stubbornness, Ms. Trethewey suggests, can be traced in nearly all of her daughters: “Rebel against her as they might, they were always very much Sydney’s children.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” casts Minneapolis as progressive and neighborly, a bustling metropolis located between stereotypical Midwestern patriarchal stubbornness and a feminist future.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

But what was it about the stubbornness of hope, the need to believe in your own exceptionality, that these things happened to other people whose friends were not like yours?

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie