stubbornness
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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
My stubbornness supplied an early test case for negotiating marital disagreement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
This is one of the rare occasions where I’m going to encourage a little stubbornness.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
He admires him, but there is a quiet stubbornness in how he frames his own ambition.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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