stubbornness
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Such stubbornness was very much in evidence at the top of the dot-com bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
That’s either a masterful, high-stakes long game of passive-aggressive behavior or a level of stubbornness and unwillingness to acknowledge a mistake that is quickly and badly damaging the show’s reputation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
And with a daring display of prime ministerial authority along with a big dose of political stubbornness, Sir Keir has kept an awful lot of those options on the table for now at least.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
A similar stubbornness, Ms. Trethewey suggests, can be traced in nearly all of her daughters: “Rebel against her as they might, they were always very much Sydney’s children.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Felicia could be very stubborn, too, but she had a gift that offset her stubbornness, a gift I admired very much.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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