intransigent

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It’s both a possibly sophisticated performance enhancer and the scourge of picky eaters, brand new to elite endurance athletes, but all too familiar to generations of intransigent five-year-olds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Mr Gibson called the housing industry "intransigent", adding: "Things like transport have improved in the last 20 years, but I haven't seen any greater availability of accessible housing."

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025

Did Bill Belichick, a 73-year-old intransigent, forever controlling-the-narrative football coach with a record six Super Bowl titles, seemingly cede the reins to his girlfriend, 24-year-old former cheerleader Jordon Hudson?

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

But Nochlin noted a potent variant, as in the case of Bourgeois, of late work that is intransigent, difficult and full of “unresolved contradiction.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

The war years were wet years, and there were many people who blamed the strange intransigent weather on the firing of the great guns in France.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck