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as in succumbed
to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)
despite hours of intense pressure, she refused to budge from her position
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2
as in shifted
to change one's position
he finally budged from his beach blanket when the tide started swirling up around him
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as in removed
to change the place or position of
the bureau was so heavy that two people couldn't budge it
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Recent Examples of budged
But not Texas, where the minimum wage has not budged since the federal government set it in 2009.
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Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
Still, the house hasn’t budged.
—Clio Chang, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2025
Because Nvidia’s earnings forecasts have not budged, the stock is becoming cheaper, at least cosmetically.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2025
For decades, Schrank says, those patterns barely budged.
—Joel Rose, NPR, 5 Dec. 2025
While maternal mortality rates for white, Hispanic and Asian women fell in 2023, according to the CDC report, the rate for Black women barely budged.
—CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025
The numbers haven’t budged much, but Romansh now sits in a kind of bureaucratic stalemate.
—Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
The meeting was cancelled after the US top official had a call with his Russian counterpart and realized the Russians hadn’t budged on their asks.
—Natalia Drozdiak, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
Didier Deschamps’ side is currently three points ahead in UEFA qualifying Group D with two games to play, and a win in Paris this week would guarantee Les Bleus cannot be budged before the campaign is done.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for budged
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Done in by Immanuel Quickley burying a 3-pointer at the buzzer, the Hornets succumbed to the Toronto Raptors 97-96 at Spectrum Center on Wednesday night.—
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Trim away any roots that have succumbed to root rot.—
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In an interview with Interesting Engineering at CES, Flywing representative Troye Qu said the company intentionally shifted focus away from cameras as passive recording tools.—
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Good briefly put the vehicle in reverse, then shifted into drive and hit the gas, with the wheels seemingly turned to the right instead of directly ahead toward Ross.—
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Investigators removed the children from Brian's home.—
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The move means the UAE has removed British universities from a list of higher education institutions eligible for state scholarships amid growing tensions over London's decision not to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, The Financial Times reported.—
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But under questioning from Cruz, Vladeck conceded that approving a nondisclosure order without any factual proffer would be inconsistent with a judge’s oath, if that hypothetical were true.—
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Some peers, smart ones, have conceded the death of this tradition.—
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
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Led by quarterback Tony Pike, the Bearcats moved quickly down the field, setting up a first down at Pitt’s 29-yard line with 33 seconds left.—
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Eventually, state workers were relocated and the building sat empty for more than two years overlooking I-84 until it was sold in 2020 for $1 million.—
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Busfield and Gilbert moved to Brighton in Livingston County in 2015, but relocated to New York City in 2018.—
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Tips submitted anonymously to the hotline may be eligible for a reward of up to $25,000.—
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Tips may also be submitted anonymously through the P3 Tips smartphone app.—
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Their usefulness remains an open question At the back of a conference hall at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, a humanoid robot twitched through a preprogrammed wave for a crowd of cell phone cameras—a classic scene of high spectacle and unclear utility at CES.—
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As the drugs flowed, Randolph's eyes were closed and his face twitched slightly.—
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“Budged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/budged. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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