balky

Even with his career at its pinnacle and before his back became chronically balky, Woods found his way onto tabloid headlines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Maintaining and fixing a balky machine teaches necessary humility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

There’s an argument to be made that the feds could believe they have a balky case and want to bloody up Adams in the public eye ahead of a trial.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2024

The original May 6 launch was scuttled hours before takeoff due to a balky rocket valve.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024

After quite a struggle and a tug of war with a balky zipper, we finally got the suits on, and our helmets and gloves locked in place.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

After dozens of false starts, he wants to get two of his balkier clients to say yes to a house he shows them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was seated at my typewriter and the book was balkier than usual, and I wished that the clumper at the door would go away.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber

By the afternoon, three horses remained — the toughest and balkiest to get into trailers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

Joe made more news as baseball's balkiest holdout.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the second floor, directly, judging from the noise, over the stall of the balkiest horse in the stable below, is the room of the Madame.

From The Witches of New York by Q. K. Philander Doesticks