recalcitrant
Example Sentences
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Potential trials for Mr. Meadows and other recalcitrants could take even longer.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
He was done trying to coerce the recalcitrants.
From Washington Post • May 18, 2018
That August, F.D.R. stood on a stage in Barnesville, Georgia, in the presence of Senator Walter George, one of the recalcitrants, and endorsed his opponent in the primary election.
From The New Yorker • May 14, 2015
The notion of self-regulation, so close to the hearts of high-minded businessmen, is never implemented with sanctions to punish recalcitrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sharply threatening to put the church under interdict, if necessary, he brought the recalcitrants to terms at last by a less formidable process.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
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