intransigent

Example Sentences

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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

But the Kandahar-based leadership has remained intransigent, and there has been no public breaking of ranks with the supreme leader’s diktats.

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024

Decency and sanity demand that we address these catastrophes, however massive and intransigent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024

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

He had scolded Ifemelu as a child for being recalcitrant, mutinous, intransigent, words that made her little actions seem epic and almost prideworthy.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie