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Recent Examples of stubbornly
With energy prices stubbornly high due to uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz and Iran war, fears of inflation are rippling through the bond market.
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Jeff Marks,paulina Likos, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Do not overlook stubbornly high interest rates, which depress the work of businesses dependent on cheap financing.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
Scientists have spent decades trying to explain it through brain structure, genetics, tool use, or even culture, yet the mystery has stubbornly survived.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
Before evaluating any solution, buyers should catalog the discrete jobs their organization needs performed, group them into clusters and identify which are already well served and which remain stubbornly unmet.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Footloose is also name-checked, which is technically not a horror movie but is about a small town that stubbornly refuses to change.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Aside from the impact of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, China is indeed facing other economic headwinds – from self-defeating price wars in its manufacturing and service sectors, to stubbornly weak domestic consumption and still-high youth employment.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Some members of that committee are wary of cutting rates at a time when inflation is stubbornly above their 2% target, and moving in the wrong direction.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 May 2026
And here's a story about how the United States is exporting oil at record levels, filling a global supply gap even as gas prices remain stubbornly high back home.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Jeff Marks,paulina Likos, CNBC, 19 May 2026
Do not overlook stubbornly high interest rates, which depress the work of businesses dependent on cheap financing.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
Scientists have spent decades trying to explain it through brain structure, genetics, tool use, or even culture, yet the mystery has stubbornly survived.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
Before evaluating any solution, buyers should catalog the discrete jobs their organization needs performed, group them into clusters and identify which are already well served and which remain stubbornly unmet.
—Eilon Reshef, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Footloose is also name-checked, which is technically not a horror movie but is about a small town that stubbornly refuses to change.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Aside from the impact of the Strait of Hormuz blockade, China is indeed facing other economic headwinds – from self-defeating price wars in its manufacturing and service sectors, to stubbornly weak domestic consumption and still-high youth employment.
—Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
Some members of that committee are wary of cutting rates at a time when inflation is stubbornly above their 2% target, and moving in the wrong direction.
—Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 May 2026
And here's a story about how the United States is exporting oil at record levels, filling a global supply gap even as gas prices remain stubbornly high back home.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stubbornly
Adverb
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Because Cuba’s communist dictatorship assumed absolute control of food production, obstinately clinging to absurdly inefficient economic policies that yielded ever-shrinking amounts of comestibles to consume or export.—
Carlos Eire,
Time,
23 Apr. 2026
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On the walk back to the inn, Henry veered off the trail to pick up a fallen branch, gray and forked with one crisp leaf clinging obstinately on.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Joshua Booth, 51, was charged with one count of willfully or maliciously torture, maim or mutilate an animal kept for companionship or pleasure causing death, a category B felony under Nevada law, according to the Clark County District Attorney's Office.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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The jury was deadlocked on the special finding that the crime was done willfully, deliberately and with premeditation, the district attorney's office confirmed to PEOPLE.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
Adverb
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Selling cigarettes on the street to buy food for her siblings, the pre-teen is indefatigably upbeat, eagerly anticipating an imminent passage to Germany.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Restall, for example, has worked indefatigably as a myth buster for dozens of misconceptions for roughly two decades now, and only recently did another historian, Camilla Townsend, stitch together the history of the Aztecs according to their own statements, as recorded in Nahuatl.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Aug. 2025
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Ballmer steadfastly denies arranging the deal between Aspiration and Leonard, who by all accounts performed no duties for Aspiration.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Ellerup, who divorced Heuermann after his arrest in 2023, steadfastly defended her ex-husband’s innocence during those earlier episodes.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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Nystrom researches the draft tirelessly, keeping a spreadsheet of data (ages, game stats, hand widths) on nearly two thousand players, and publicly ranks his top five hundred—nearly twice as many as will actually be drafted.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Meanwhile, gracious but iron-willed family matriarch Claudine works tirelessly behind the scenes to hush up family scandals.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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“Stubbornly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stubbornly. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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