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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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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
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Linda sometimes snaps back, sometimes even neglects her, and turns the girl’s doctor (played by Bronstein) into an implacable adversary.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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His recent actions include pushing hard-line immigration policies and making Florida the first state to recognize Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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New freedoms flourish Initial fears among Syrians of revenge attacks by the hard-line HTS, or of the repression of religious minorities after the Dec. 8 toppling of Alawite dictator Bashar al-Assad, have not come to pass.—
Taylor Luck,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Feb. 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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This deep understanding of users' constraints and environments is crucial, especially when designing complex medical devices like large, immovable machines such as MRI or CT scanners.—
Aishwarya Suresh,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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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).—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 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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The relentless pushing reaches a point of questioning.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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The post, which unexpectedly went viral in January for reasons that Meli does not know, questions ambition's place in modern life, portraying it as a relentless force driven by capitalism and social conditioning rather than genuine fulfillment.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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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Although Bush and Obama both flirted with what was once called entitlement reform, Trump and Biden now present themselves as adamantine defenders of Social Security and Medicare, each accusing the other of secretly aiming to cut those programs.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Oct. 2024
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“Rock-ribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rock-ribbed. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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