budge
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"I kept insisting but my mum just wouldn't budge," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
And though Bernstein’s Rezaei wrote positively about the recent results, she didn’t budge from her underperform stance in her note that was titled: “Credit where credit is due… until the credit is actually due.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
“They really put a lot of pressure on him, and he didn’t budge, near as I can tell,” said Kohn, who later became a Fed governor and vice chairman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
For one thing, the state will absolutely not budge.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
She tried to dump out the liquid, but it didn’t budge.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
And without Notre Dame, it’s increasingly unlikely the Big Ten budges — for now.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
If neither side budges from its current demands, the talks—which have been in hiatus for five months—are likely to go nowhere, in which case we will see the sharpening of tensions or worse.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2021
She looks around the tent, but no one budges.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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
But despite some “incredible” offers, they haven’t budged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
In the undergraduate space, federal loan limits haven’t budged since 2008, yet colleges have still raised their prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
No matter how much she’d pulled and begged and whispered encouraging words, he hadn’t budged.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
He’s not budging from some bearish tech views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Yoweri Museveni seized the top job in 1986 following an armed uprising and at the age of 81, he shows no signs of budging.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 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
For now, the recommended strategy is that “AI equity leadership ain’t budging for the time being.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
I moved beside Fred, budging my way into the front row to see the shark’s body being pulled by the hoist from just below the dock.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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