adamant

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I was adamant that this would be my new career path.

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very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

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noun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

adjective

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency"

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noun

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

adjective

See also: adamantine, inexorable, intransigent

Example sentences

I was adamant that this would be my new career path.

Steve was adamant about not having 3rd party apps on the iPhone for a long time.

He was adamant about it, and completely dismissive of my claims.

See the problem here?The other question I have is why you were so adamant about getting funding.

We were adamant about NOT paying for the care and it never showed up on our bill, so we let well enough alone.

> When a company is so adamant about not losingWhat does this sentence even mean?

As a former 12 year old boy, I don't understand why people are so adamant to protect children from sexual content.

What kind of company is adamant about losing, exactly?

If they are adamant about trying marijuana, I will urge them to wait until they're in their mid-20s when their brains are fully developed.

Nah, just kidding, the nerds were adamant that nobody needed that many pixels anyway, and preferred to argue about the "Retina" monicker.

These are, by the way, people who are very adamantly against "1 percenters" which, I don't know if you've heard, also knowingly break the law on a federal level all the time and expect to get away with it.

Time and again I've had conversations with bicyclists friends of mine who are adamant about how helmets are as optional as obeying traffic signals; it's totally hypocritical and asinine.

It's pretty cool to see all these screenshots and the background color leaking into the tabs... I'm the designer of the Sublime Text UI theme and Jon was adamant about making the tab background using the color of the theme background color.

Despite the debt, it’s a wise investment for many students.>When asked about the difficulty in paying for college, Schmidt was adamant: “I appreciate it’s expensive and we need to fix that,” he said, but “figure out a way to do it.”College is expensive because we tell kids that it's going to be this huge windfall so people "figure out a way to do it.