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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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Cassuto critiques the insular nature of most academic writing, which can be inaccessible to outsiders and, thus, not read.Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Today, Said’s views have achieved a kind of Pyrrhic victory within the academic humanities, where politically engaged criticism is both the norm and, not coincidentally, more insular and detached from public life than ever.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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McCaffrey hadn’t played since the Super Bowl in Las Vegas while battling a stubborn case of Achilles tendinitis.Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Find it on Amazon A Dark Spot Remover That’s Full of Nourishing Ingredients Don’t let stubborn dark spots ruin your confidence—invest in this dark spot remover.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2024
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Up the long hill and around a bend that almost touches itself White Chimneys comes into view, as harsh and obdurate as ever.Annie Proulx, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
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Over the next several hundred million years, terrestrial plants of all kinds profoundly altered the planet, accelerating the water cycle, turning obdurate crust into supple soil—and pushing the level of atmospheric oxygen to new heights.Ferris Jabr, The Atlantic, 25 June 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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Republicans will be obstinate in refusing to pass any bill that might bolster Democrats’ electoral prospects in November.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
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There are literally thousands of other Americans worldwide who have dedicated their lives in similar ways to causes that are more consequential than parochial nationalism.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Slipknot have since gone multi-platinum, founded their own music festival, and stretched far beyond their parochial metal scene into persistent cultural relevance.Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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That year, an ensemble of forty-nine players performed the world premiere of his Fourth Symphony in the German provincial city of Meiningen.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
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The city held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the Pakistan-India border on Saturday, based on data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir.Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Near ubiquitous, however, is consternation about the election process as a whole, with Pennsylvania being Ground Zero for an unyielding torrent of partisan propaganda.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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And the two communities are only becoming more rigid and unyielding.Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
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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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Even many allies in the fight for racial justice dismiss his brand of antiracism as unworkable, wrongheaded or counterproductive.Rachel Poser January LaVoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
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“Ironbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironbound. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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