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bullheaded

[bool-hed-id] / ˈbʊlˈhɛd ɪd /
ADJECTIVE
stubborn
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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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