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Recent Examples of ironbound
And there are advantages to having no ironbound curatorial concept in play: At least the 30 or so artists get equal time with their varied voices, some mild, some strong, several new to New York.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironbound
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Belichick, always an insular coach, further withdrew during that season amid his team’s struggles, according to team sources with knowledge of the situation.Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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An even more explicit example of Marin County’s stubborn resistance is occurring in Fairfax, another insular community a few miles from Newsom’s new home.Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The stubborn machine has won, and politicians are, for the most part, just fodder, which means that every politician who has to stand in front of a camera after a tragedy turns into another battle site in an endless culture war.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2025
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Coaches will tell you of a character who could be grumpy or stubborn, but also of someone who needed faith shown in him.The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement None of that has immunized the lowly smelt from its most obdurate enemy: partisan folly.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Nevertheless, Biden’s obdurate unwillingness to step aside for younger, more plausible Democratic candidates resulted in the reëmergence of his nemesis.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin were obstinate, colorful negotiators.Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 30 Dec. 2024
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The Founding generation also worried that older men were more inflexible, obstinate, uninterested in change, and stuck in their ways—all leadership qualities at odds with the experimentation needed for representative government.Rebecca Brannon / Made by History, TIME, 3 July 2024
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But parochial political feuds and byzantine zoning codes have hampered LA’s efforts to get more new housing off the ground.Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
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Given the court's significance in international law, this case could have more of an impact than COP on countries' behavior and corporate policies — and on future legal action, compared to past more parochial climate cases.Andrew Freedman, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
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In Canada, this is largely a provincial responsibility, but the national government shouldered a lot of the blame.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Canadian provincial driver's license or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
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His upbringing left him with a speech impediment and an unyielding desire to make something of his life.airmail.news, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
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The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Some people’s views, inevitably, will be shaped by wrongheaded ideas.Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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There’s a widespread and sadly tragic misunderstanding of Bridgerton as a show primarily about romance, and this sensible but wrongheaded conclusion has some basis in fact.Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 June 2024
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“Ironbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironbound. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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