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Six example sentences with recalcitrant, each labelled with its topic.
One recalcitrant server refused every restart script, so the team drove out at midnight and unplugged it by hand.
Technology
A recalcitrant hamstring kept her out of the trials, refusing to loosen no matter how carefully she warmed up.
Fitness
Two recalcitrant senators held up the bill for a month, ignoring every offer their own leadership put forward.
Politics
A recalcitrant star skipped three practices and told reporters the new offense was not his problem.
Basketball
The judge fined the recalcitrant witness for refusing, a fourth time, to answer a question he plainly understood.
Law
The recalcitrant tenor refused every note the director suggested and sang the aria his own way on opening night.
Music
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