headstrong
Example Sentences
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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
As a headstrong piano student, he made rapid if idiosyncratic progress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
What if those new military leaders round the table are more headstrong and less cautious than their dead predecessors?
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025
Riding those subterranean rails is Cora, a headstrong enslaved woman determined to find her freedom in the North and learn the fate of her disappeared mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
And Jaime was even worse, rash and headstrong and quick to anger.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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