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So Nantz delivered a solid blow to the ball, which didn’t budge in Watt’s arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Instead, after Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn refused to budge on their contractual right to stage the fight on British soil, the Welsh capital has taken centre stage.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Even the pandemic didn’t cause that number to budge — it has remained consistent for over a decade.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

That will keep the share price moving higher, even if GM’s market value doesn’t budge.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Their eyes washed over their bodies, inspecting them, but they didn’t otherwise budge.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Despite the difficulties and dilemmas, her friends and colleagues agree she is not someone who budges easily.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024

I’m hedging because the subject so lacks in novelty and only budges grudgingly from the predictable.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

Imagine these watery budges as two long waves that move over Earth as the planet rotates.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2014

The book opens with Dana, a security guard with so much sang-froid that her heart rate never budges.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2013

The strength of the resulting earthquake depends on how much energy has built up in the fault before it budges, how much of the fault slips, and how far it moves.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

They put the probability of recession in the coming 12 months at 24%, barely budged from 25% in July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The rate of layoffs, meanwhile, sank to the lowest level on record in late 2021 and has barely budged since then.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

More than a century later, the vocabulary has modernized, but the underlying idea has barely budged.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Then it faced the labor strains of a nation whose economy has grown 15-fold since 1990 while the population barely budged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Five days later the fever had not budged.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Itauma continued to fire combinations but Hrgovic was barely budging.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Chevron and Exxon Mobil were barely budging on the heels of first-quarter earnings, falling 0.3% and rising 0.6%, respectively.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Despite not budging on their spending plans, the companies are running their refineries at full tilt to take advantage of soaring prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Eastern time on Sunday, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were flat, and S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq Composite futures were barely budging higher.

From Barron's ● Dec. 7, 2025

I must have frowned pretty hard, because he looked at my face and he swallowed a few times, but he wasn’t budging.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones