holdouts in English

noun
1
an act of resisting something or refusing to accept what is offered.
a defiant holdout against a commercial culture

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1. Continued bombings on Resistance holdouts...

2. My mother brought the hammer down on the holdouts.

3. Another 19 were taken prisoner, and 20 Japanese holdouts surfaced after the war on 1 January 1946.

4. Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that writers and teachers of writing are among the last emoticon holdouts.