Example Sentences

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Both sides have budged, both sides have compromised.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2023

A South African doctor said patients with Omicron have "very mild" symptoms and investment houses don't look to have budged that much.

From Reuters • Nov. 29, 2021

Numbers have budged in the low single digits — or sometimes not at all, despite pledges from tech companies to do better.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2016

None of the principals themselves have budged from their oft-stated positions that the Fed’s hands were tied.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2016

Papa knew better than to open his mouth, because once Mama had made up her mind like that, she wouldn’t have budged an inch from a buzzing rattler.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls