as in tough
not easily chewed the leathery meat served in the cafeteria drove many of us to start bringing our own lunches

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Recent Examples of leathery Those bones also needed to be strong, though, to support the load of the tough, leathery wing membranes. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025 Beach vitex has small, round leaves and a smooth, leathery texture. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2025 But since the skin is quite leathery and not as tearable as a banana peel, this is one occasion in which proper tools make the task much quicker and easier. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025 Again came her measured footsteps, and with them Dev’s first encounter with the impossible, leathery taste of whiskey. Kanak Kapur, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leathery
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Adjective
  • In Mind For startups, achieving more with less can be tough.
    John Hall, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • The vote took place against an increasingly violent backlash to the Trump administration's tough immigration policies.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
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  • Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • If Elden Ring — and the many FromSoftware games in its lineage — is about individual improvement, about experimenting with playstyles and adjusting your way of thinking until a brick wall becomes brittle before finally crumbling, then Nightreign is about improving as a team.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 29 May 2025

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“Leathery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leathery. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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