strong-willed
Example Sentences
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Epstein told de Rothschild she could count on him in difficult times, and that he viewed her as his younger, strong-willed sister.
He had done a good deal of writing at the table beneath that tree, calling it a “strong-willed, powerful thing in-itself, reaching up and reaching down” in his 1924 essay “Pan in America.”
As a girl, Petrou was studious and strong-willed; in a 2018 profile in The Wall Street Journal, her mother recalled Petrou getting into a heated “intellectual disputation” with their rabbi at Sunday school.
He was a strong-willed man, but the dog was strong-willed, too.
From Literature
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Monetary policy is set by committee, and forging consensus among 19 strong-willed policymakers—each with their own reading of the economy—is a core part of the job.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.