headstrong
Example Sentences
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At times it behaves like a precocious child: headstrong and resistant to parental intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
We don’t yet want to say that the situation has spiraled out of control, but the spiral could be only a couple of headstrong choices away.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2026
Smart and headstrong, Ellison attended the University of Chicago, but dropped out and drove to California in a used Thunderbird.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2025
As a headstrong piano student, he made rapid if idiosyncratic progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious and arrogant.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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