bullheaded
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You’ll need bullheaded determination to excel in this week’s Slate News Quiz.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
Patterson should have died from a nasty superbug picked up in Egypt in 2015 — except Patterson is married to bullheaded epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
“This notion of bullheaded romantic persistence is a recurring cultural touchstone—countless movies, music and books celebrate the heroics of steadfast pursuit with admiration,” Valsthein says.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2023
Feisty and bullheaded, his office walls covered with animal trophies and a 10-foot grizzly pelt, Young was a former riverboat captain willing to do anything to send money home to Alaska.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
She had married a bullheaded man, a sometimes ridiculously stubborn man.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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