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Six example sentences with refractory, each labelled with its topic.
Doctors labeled the infection refractory after three different antibiotics failed to clear it over two months.
Medicine
A refractory regional office ignored the new expense policy for a year, filing receipts the old way no matter how many memos arrived.
Business
The refractory rookie kept launching deep threes after the coach benched him twice for exactly that.
Basketball
A refractory faction voted against its own party's budget for the fifth year running, ignoring every appeal from its leaders.
Politics
One refractory bug survived four patches, reappearing each release in a slightly different part of the code.
Technology
The refractory province refused the new tax for a decade, and three governors were recalled for failing to collect it.
History
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