as in static
incapable of moving or being moved
the massive old bed was simply unbudging, despite our best efforts
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Recent Examples of unbudging
Automakers should read from this trend the unbudging fact that American consumers don’t want to give up full-sized cars.
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Marty Jerome, WIRED, 26 July 2007
Marty Jerome, WIRED, 26 July 2007
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbudging
Adjective
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These static, profile views often depict male and female elk, sometimes with calves, and occasionally alongside other Ice Age fauna such as mammoths, woolly rhinos, and ostriches.—
Margherita Bassi,
Popular Science,
24 July 2025
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Sprawling rural areas and low-income towns fringing the Everglades are lucky to get static.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 July 2025
Adjective
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These new findings show that biological aging is not a fixed trajectory and opens up new avenues for aging research and epigenetic interventions.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 July 2025
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Much of the series orbits around the upper echelons of American society during a fixed moment in time, where the United States and key families were both experiencing economic wins and losses in the 1880s.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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Connor Blades, a project officer with the Barbados environment ministry, finally identified it by taking a video of the snake, then studying a still image from the footage, reports the Associated Press’ Dánica Coto.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 July 2025
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Typically, law enforcement agencies employ software like Clearview AI after a crime has occurred, comparing a still image against a database of mugshots, driver’s license photos, and social media posts.—
Logan Seacrest,
Boston Herald,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Sunday’s Euro 2025 final between England and Spain is a rematch of the 2023 World Cup final in what will be the battle of the immovable object versus the unstoppable force.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
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However, the seemingly unstoppable force of the Trump administration’s MAHA push may meet the immovable object of decades-old, powerful lobbying barriers from U.S. agriculture, putting a damper on the prospect of cane-sugar Coke in the U.S.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 July 2025
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“Unbudging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbudging. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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