refractory
stubbornly resistant to control, authority, or treatment
Refractory in a sentence
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The refractory infection failed to respond to several rounds of antibiotics.
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The startup's early growth, impressive as it looked on paper, rested on a blank foundation, for a single lost contract was enough to push the firm to the brink of collapse.
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