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Recent Examples of ironbound
His work ethic was ironbound, his creativity often chaotic, his studio on Bologna’s Via Gaibola a wunderkammer of sorts where the textile-nerd creative masterminded more brands than arguably any other designer.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
And there are advantages to having no ironbound curatorial concept in play: At least the 30 or so artists get equal time with their varied voices, some mild, some strong, several new to New York.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
And there are advantages to having no ironbound curatorial concept in play: At least the 30 or so artists get equal time with their varied voices, some mild, some strong, several new to New York.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironbound
Adjective
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The interview is alternately boring and compelling, offering a glimpse into an insular world of privilege and entitlement.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
30 Aug. 2025
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At age 18, Ammon made the decision to leave his Amish family and start a life beyond the insular, Luddite community.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Of all the bad-hair-day culprits, matted hair can be the most stubborn and frustrating.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Spills can be blotted (never rubbed) with a dry cloth since the fabric is non-absorptive, and for more stubborn stains, dry cleaning is recommended.—
Zoë Sessums,
Architectural Digest,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Most of these initiatives met obdurate resistance from more powerful sectors of the state, and by the end of Khatami’s second term, in 2005, the reform movement had lost much of its momentum.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
8 Aug. 2025
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Ipswich proved obdurate and then generous opponents — Newcastle’s 78 per cent possession was the highest by any team in a Premier League match this season — and their relegation was confirmed by this 3-0 defeat.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There’s something admirable, in an obstinate way, about Coen choosing to make lesbian B-movies that clock in at under 90 minutes as his first and second solo features following his creative split with Joel in 2018.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Our investor was obstinate, the seller was impatient, and my team was exhausted.—
Pankaj Vasani,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This week, in parochial and Christian schools across Chicago and the suburbs, schoolchildren filed into pews with their classmates to observe church services ahead of the school day.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Funded by political parties and subscribers, such papers were thoroughly partisan and parochial.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Moving Forward And Upward Assertive financial communication doesn’t mean being loud, dominant or unyielding.—
Joyce Marter,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Looming over everything is the unyielding passage of time, from the quickly dwindling daylight to the players’ creaking knees.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
Adjective
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Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Bowles said, made a wrongheaded decision to attend the inauguration of the incoming president of Ghana, ignoring pre-trip fire warnings.—
Steven P. Dinkin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Ironbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironbound. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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