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Recent Examples of rock-ribbed
While the Democrats have completely revamped their primary calendar, the Republicans have remained the party of rock-ribbed tradition.
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Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rock-ribbed
Adjective
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In many parts of the developing world, China has come to be seen as a rapacious and unbending creditor, not so different from the Western multinational corporations and lenders that sought to collect on bad debts in decades past.—
Michael Bennon,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Aug. 2023
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Assad responded then with unbending violence, and the revolt turned into a bloody civil war that tore the country apart.—
Sarah Dadouch,
Washington Post,
25 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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In the past, news organizations have met governmental threats and incursions with implacable resistance.—
Michael Wolff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Mar. 2025
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Pius stands facing the camera in a white cassock, two fingers of his right hand raised in benediction, his gaze penetrating and implacable.—
Cullen Murphy,
airmail.news,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In an era where employee engagement is paramount to organizational success, hard-line leadership and bullying tactics are counterproductive.—
Chris Westfall,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Paxton's investigation highlights the divide between the Republican administration's hard-line immigration agenda and the policies of largely Democratic-run cities pushing back against it.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some contemporary nationalisms, such as those in India, Russia, and Turkey, are animated by memories of territorial loss, while others have an uncompromising sense of the permanence and security of their borders.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Blocking an uncompromising Republican CR means Democrats would have to debate over blame for the shutdown.—
Richard McGahey,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Nemesis is the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of what happens when an unstoppable force (an expert criminal), Coltrane Wilder (Noel), meets an immovable object (a brilliant police detective), Isaiah Stiles (Law).—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
18 Mar. 2025
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Small wonder, then, that Congressional responses to far more abstract issues like, say, the primary care physician shortage, bog down in immovable policy inertia.—
Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The tree was of no great size, apparently being able to derive but a precarious living from its tenuous foothold in the unyielding stone.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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Looming over everything is the unyielding passage of time, from the quickly dwindling daylight to the players’ creaking knees.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Each deep scratch tears into my skin, bringing with it a temporary relief from the relentless, mind-bending itch.—
Andy Collinson,
Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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Before commissioners approved the deal nearly two years ago, Tate faced relentless opposition from critics who called the deal a land giveaway and objected to private condos being built on public land worth at least $256 million.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Still, Naz, whose solitary ways confuse his family, very much wishes that Aziza wasn’t meeting his adamantine mother, Claudine (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), or his famous father, or his ex-state-senator older brother, Junior (Glenn Davis), recently incarcerated for embezzling campaign funds.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
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Image My first collision with the adamantine wall of Vivamayr house rules coincided with my arrival.—
Caity Weaver,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Rock-ribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rock-ribbed. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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