as in unsentimental
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-edged
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The Problems Do Not Go Away McGee is refreshingly unsentimental about what building a business over a decade actually looks like.
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Paradoxically, maintaining a consistent edge requires constant, unsentimental internal change—of processes, technology, and people.
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Those are two tough-minded veterans.
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Lucas is a tough-minded old buzzard.
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Gorgeous cinematography and a very unromantic portrayal of the grueling life of a secret agent make this a solid watch.
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This idea was supposed to be the kind of thing that could convince even the most unromantic skeptics that space exploration was not only spiritually fulfilling, but economically advantageous.
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Mitchell said public safety is a bottom-line issue for residents and a reason why people decide to even migrate to Charlotte in the first place.
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Still, some council members remained hesitant Tuesday to cede its bottom-line lawmaking authority, even after the eight-member body had voted 5-3 earlier this month to advance Lee’s proposal.
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Traditionally cynical and perceptive commentators—not to mention a lot of tired citizens—found themselves, in some accounts, overcome by an unexpected wave of patriotic sentimentality that washed away, at least for a moment, their gnawing doubts.
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Heston is at his most gleefully cynical as Robert Thorn, a police detective who lives and works in a New York City decimated by environmental deterioration and dwindling resources.
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When customers, teams and leadership are understood early, decisions around design, content and technology become more grounded.
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Stay grounded and focus on what matters.
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Following the logical evidence feels like Detective 101, but their boss is gunning for an arrest so Gonzales gives in to Baxter’s impulse.
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Under this framework, participating engineering teams must successfully demonstrate operational quantum hardware that utilizes a specific range of low-hundreds logical qubits before the 2028 deadline.
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Ray advises Anna to let the police handle the situation, which confirms him as the most rational character on the show and thus the only threat that Cady seems to recognize.
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Research from the LinkedIn B2B Institute, conducted with Les Binet and Peter Field, found that emotional B2B campaigns deliver roughly seven times the long-term effectiveness of rational ones.
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“Hard-edged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-edged. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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