mulish
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This grass-colored liqueur, with its bracing, vegetal taste and mulish kick, called Chartreuse after the Carthusian brothers of your order, is the closest thing you’ll ever experience to a magic potion.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2022
Maybe they weren’t just being mulish but were just tired.
From Washington Times • May 5, 2021
Come Wednesday morning the mulish paragraph addressing conduct during the national anthem was suddenly nowhere to be found on the pre-race handout, leading to much online murmuring.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2020
In 1969, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin ran a political campaign largely devoted to the idea of Gotham’s sovereignty — with the mulish insistence that the city get custody of the name “New York.”
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017
“We should get back on the road to Abuelita’s house. And this is the fastest and safest way to get there. So stop being so mulish and get up here. Come on, everybody up.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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