verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
barely
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They spend ever more on public education, yet test scores and dropout rates barely budge .
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And the stock barely budged from when he took over.
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In the Treasury market, Washington budget wranglings took a back seat to empty desks as prices barely budged .
■ NOUN
inch
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Once on the ground again she tried pulling the horse, but still it would not budge an inch .
■ VERB
refuse
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I told my boss this but he refused to budge on it.
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So I honked and honked, but he refused to budge .
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They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground.
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The coalition is refusing to budge on its demands for control of the 14 cities it apparently won Nov. 17.
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The threats were dire enough to make the Republicans look reckless when they refused to budge .
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He then removed two of the kittens, but the third refused to budge .
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But they refused to budge and he legged it.
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The snow on the windscreen refused to budge .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not give/budge an inch
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And even with his size he didn't know what to do with Braden standing over him and not giving an inch .
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I was just a novice and he was fairly frightening, not giving an inch until he had sounded you out.
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Once on the ground again she tried pulling the horse, but still it would not budge an inch .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The car was stuck in the snow and we couldn't budge it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But prices had budged by only-pennies at a time, and mostly they went down.
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Gandhi would not budge from five.
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He desperately tried to drag his hand away, but it wouldn't budge .
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I told my boss this but he refused to budge on it.
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Immanuel Kant sat in Konigsberg and never budged.
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The threats were dire enough to make the Republicans look reckless when they refused to budge .
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They can not be shot or netted since they refuse to budge and will be sitting tight underground.