as in traditional
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the hidebound innkeeper refused to see the need for a Web site, insisting that the inn had done without one for over 150 years
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Recent Examples of hidebound
Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.
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Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.
—Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Belatedly, political classes (and some of Japan’s huge industrial conglomerates) are realizing the economic value, employment potential and soft power impact of a less hidebound and risk-averse film and TV industry.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
For a moment, bodies as hidebound as the Supreme Court and the papacy looked as if they might be rehabbed into vehicles for social justice.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Those fired were not hidebound deep state bureaucrats merely slurping from the federal trough.
—Southern California News Group Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2025
Belatedly, political classes (and some of Japan’s huge industrial conglomerates) are realizing the economic value, employment potential and soft power impact of a less hidebound and risk-averse film and TV industry.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
For a moment, bodies as hidebound as the Supreme Court and the papacy looked as if they might be rehabbed into vehicles for social justice.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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Kanika Talwar,
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12 June 2025
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In the country category, there will be a new award for best traditional country album, and the current best country album category will be renamed to best contemporary country album.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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Its rustling stirs the tension in a radicalizing conservative society, while its wailing heralds the irreversible consequences of raging human emotion.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
3 June 2025
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Nawrocki, a conservative historian and amateur boxer who was backed by PiS, had presented the vote as a referendum on Tusk's 18-month-old government.—
Anna Magdalena Lubowicka,
USA Today,
3 June 2025
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Martinez is 29 years old, stands at 5-foot-11 with a 72-inch reach, and fights in an orthodox right-handed stance.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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But there should be no such wall—even in the most orthodox capitalist system.—
Paul Laudicina,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Hidebound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hidebound. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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