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Meanings of stubborn in English
Persisting in a reactionary stand.
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Usage of stubborn in English
1
In the most stubborn pockets of crime and poverty, police make thousands.
2
The pig is perhaps the most stubborn and courageous animal in India.
3
If she insists on being stubborn, however, well...well, we'll need your help.
4
They talked of horses and argued over training methods with stubborn animals.
5
Bendigo, while stable, has a stubborn number of concerning and active cases.
6
His stubborn insistence stirred concerns of a violent power struggle in Baghdad.
7
I'm grateful for the opportunity, she said firmly, sounding stubborn to him.
8
However Reynolds was stubborn and pushed through Whelehan's appointment over Labour protests.
9
Yet behind that admission there is a deeper and more stubborn truth.
10
I did my best to appear sidetracked by a particularly stubborn pin.
11
The fortress was stormed in spite of the most stubborn Russian resistance.
12
General Smyth again tried the effect of diplomacy upon the stubborn British.
13
And Adolf Rosenthal remained stubborn as well, however much Lea might complain.
14
And the voice: high and stubborn, insistent on having his own way.
15
It's just that we make decisions based on a particular stubborn calculus.
16
Though, Marc was definitely stubborn and possibly had held out that long.
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Stubborn across language varieties
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United States of America
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