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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brassbound
Adjective
  • Unlike psychiatric or weight-loss drugs, finasteride's cosmetic classification may have shielded it from rigorous post-marketing scrutiny.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Every credit card list is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of credit card products.
    Ryley Amond, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Actors were brought in to pretend to be North Korean soldiers and wellwishers, and a choir of local schoolchildren sang traditional songs.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Qiuhao Qiuhao quietly opened fashion week with a strong collection mining the idea of utilitarian aspects of Chinese traditional garments in the 1930s, which were subtly influenced by the Art Deco movement.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In other hands, this would cue a standard disease-of-the-week weepie, but Coixet keeps the tone lightly wistful and wise, and trains her attention ever more minutely on Rohrwacher, who along with her character, seems to blossom gradually under this steady gaze.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Point guard James Harden had a quiet night scoring-wise with five points, but handed out 11 assists.
    Janis Carr, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Last month, Cupertino became the latest Bay Area city to impose strict restrictions on RVs parking on city streets, with both city councilmembers and residents referencing the bans elsewhere in their reasoning.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Prefer to set strict rules allotting only a handful of visitors each morning?
    Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Most major news brands decline Pentagon censorship rules A dozen or more major media companies, including conservative-leaning newsrooms, have refused to sign a pledge to only report officially approved news from the Pentagon.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The figures were crunched by researchers at the Institute for Legislative Analysis (ILA), an organization closely affiliated with the Institute for Legislative Advocacy, a conservative group that promotes smaller government.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That sense of reiterating his faith and a fresh start were on display Sunday night as Brown registered his first two-touchdown game in four seasons to help the resurgent Chiefs beat visiting Detroit 30-17.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Unfortunately, most bread boxes and bags just don’t keep bread fresh long enough to reach the end of the loaf.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His presence on the left was not a rigid change, but a fluid one with Zubimendi on the bench.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers say the material can even be integrated with rigid robotic parts to create hybrid machines suited for complex, high-stress environments.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • An ultra-orthodox school sat adjacent to the library, and its staff supplied the settlers with sleeping mats and air conditioning for the long night.
    Ryan Byrnes, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Vatican said Leo will travel to the town of Iznik, modern day Nicaea, for the anniversary and while in Turkey is expected to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Batholomew, the spiritual leader of the approximately 300 million Eastern orthodox Christians.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Brassbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brassbound. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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