budge
verb (used without object)
to move slightly; begin to move.
unbudging
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a word derived from
budge.
Example Sentences
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The executives made the remarks as value continues to reign supreme in an era of tariffs and unbudging inflation, and as lower-income shoppers feel the pain of the decade’s affordability crunch more deeply.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 23, 2025
She may be 100 percent wrong and unbudging, but that’ll be on her — not because you failed to say just the right thing.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
“What emerges is like a giant tree,” Thompson wrote, “twisting and turning with 500 million people on different branch levels, unbudging at the roots.”
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
With my seatmates still unbudging, I was pitched into the aisle.
From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2014
Again he stood in, oh! such a wonderful pose, still as a statue, frozen like a hiding Partridge, unbudging as a lone kid Antelope in May.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger
