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a flinty and determined hero
a flinty warrior hardened by years of battle
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Irving may have intuited, at the dawn of American history, that the nation would need a foil for flintier heroes like Cooper’s Natty Bumppo, self-improvers like the Benjamin Franklin of the Autobiography, and secular saints such as Parson Weems’s George Washington.
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John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Here, with a flinty gaze and revolutionary fervor, Taylor casts maternal instinct to the winds.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Inglesby writes sensitive but flinty women with a gentle yet edgy, masterful touch.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Roberts plays a flinty college professor who is caught up in the crossfire between the accusor and the accused.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
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John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Here, with a flinty gaze and revolutionary fervor, Taylor casts maternal instinct to the winds.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Inglesby writes sensitive but flinty women with a gentle yet edgy, masterful touch.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Roberts plays a flinty college professor who is caught up in the crossfire between the accusor and the accused.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for flinty
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“Flinty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flinty. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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