STUBBORNLY Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

stubbornly

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as in obstinately

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Recent Examples of stubbornly On that note, resist the urge to bury discomfort by indulging, shopping or being stubbornly silent. — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026 And while electrification and sustainable fuels have started to address emissions in cars and planes, shipping has remained stubbornly tied to heavy fuel oil. — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 June 2026 What begins as a history play transforms into a sharp-eyed satire about the cost of assimilation in a society where money, power and white privilege remain stubbornly intertwined. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 That number has remained stubbornly static, aggravating inhumane consequences of long-term homelessness. — Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 There is a lot of uncertainty in the US economy right now with a weakening labor market, skyrocketing gas prices and stubbornly high inflation, among other factors. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 25 June 2026 Not only are new-vehicle shoppers facing increasingly higher up-front costs, stubbornly high interest rates are forcing many buyers to finance their rides for six- and even seven-year terms to help minimize their monthly payments. — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 By these arguments, an AI proof of a mathematical conjecture that has stubbornly resisted human efforts would be useful only if comprehensible to humans. — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026 Part of the issue is that credit card interest rates have remained stubbornly high despite multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts late last year, and at the current average rate of nearly 22%, many card users are paying hundreds of dollars each month in interest alone. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 26 June 2026

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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
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

Definition of obstinately

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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
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

Definition of indefatigably

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For example, a sales team fixated on cold-call conversion works tirelessly to lift that number when the better move may be to retire cold-calling altogether—something the metric can only score as failure.

— Sophie Ren, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Japan are close to that level and will work tirelessly to make this a close game.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 29 June 2026

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