as in stubbornly
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Adverb
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A number of factors have kept prices stubbornly high, including widespread drought and the reemergence of a flesh-eating screwworm in Mexican cattle.—
Mackensy Lunsford,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025 -
Faced with climbing prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates, buyers started withdrawing from the market this year.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The president was charged in 2023 with willfully retaining national defense information.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Obstinately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obstinately. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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