: a fur formerly prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool outward
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Verb
Their horses refused to budge.
The door was stuck, and we couldn't even get it to budge.
Could you try opening this jar for me? I can't budge the lid.
We tried to change her mind, but we couldn't budge her.
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Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 19 Nov. 2024
The push by the outgoing Biden administration to convince Americans to buy more battery electric vehicles is likely to slow down to barely a budge when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
Kyiv has loudly appealed against this curb, but Washington has so far not budged.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Rob Davis, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2024
Why budge if, as many analysts argue, Syria is the central front in a larger war between Sunnis and Shiites?
—Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2015
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Noun
And yet one thing never budges: they've been undocumented for over three decades.
—Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 19 Nov. 2024
The push by the outgoing Biden administration to convince Americans to buy more battery electric vehicles is likely to slow down to barely a budge when Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.
—Ed Garsten, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Verb
Dwight won’t budge from 25 percent because Bill’s men killed Dwight’s guy Jimmy the Creek, but that particular door of violence swings both ways and a reasonable person might just take the deal to avoid more dead Jimmy the Creeks.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
Kyiv has loudly appealed against this curb, but Washington has so far not budged.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Nike hasn’t seen its emissions budge in the past decade, despite promises to sharply reduce them.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2024
Why budge if, as many analysts argue, Syria is the central front in a larger war between Sunnis and Shiites?
—Lionel Beehner, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2015
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“Budge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/budge. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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