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Recent Examples of rock-ribbed
While the Democrats have completely revamped their primary calendar, the Republicans have remained the party of rock-ribbed tradition.
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Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rock-ribbed
Adjective
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In many parts of the developing world, China has come to be seen as a rapacious and unbending creditor, not so different from the Western multinational corporations and lenders that sought to collect on bad debts in decades past.—
Michael Bennon,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Aug. 2023
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Assad responded then with unbending violence, and the revolt turned into a bloody civil war that tore the country apart.—
Sarah Dadouch,
Washington Post,
25 Aug. 2023
Adjective
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In the great-power-competition narrative, those countries were positioned as implacable enemies, ideologically opposed to the U.S.-led order.—
Stacie E. Goddard,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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In the past, news organizations have met governmental threats and incursions with implacable resistance.—
Michael Wolff,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Despite the administration's apparent focus on serious offenders, green card holders, legal permanent residents, and even U.S. citizens are getting caught up in the president's hard-line crackdown.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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Doral joins Coral Gables, Hialeah, West Miami, and Miami Springs as the latest Miami-Dade municipality to align with the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration agenda.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Jinsei is an uncompromising social satire that examines identity and the meaning of life.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2025
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Coogler presents a provocatively Africanist view of Black American experience, and does so with exuberant inventiveness; the uncompromising political essence of his allegorical vision is expressed with aesthetic delight.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Wait long enough and the immovable object will eventually bend.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Dec. 2024
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Nemesis is the story of two men on either side of the law, the tale of what happens when an unstoppable force, expert criminal Coltrane Wilder (Noel), meets an immovable object, brilliant police detective Isaiah Stiles (Law).—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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My Focus My own mistakes have informed my unyielding focus on family.—
Ken Polk,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Most impactful is the film’s focus on the adult son of Ramirez’s victim, whose anger seems so unyielding.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Google’s index ballooned as its crawlers struggled to process this relentless deluge of pages.—
Ivan Guzenko,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Still, Starks is a natural leader with a relentless motor who isn't afraid to make contact.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Still, Naz, whose solitary ways confuse his family, very much wishes that Aziza wasn’t meeting his adamantine mother, Claudine (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), or his famous father, or his ex-state-senator older brother, Junior (Glenn Davis), recently incarcerated for embezzling campaign funds.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
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Image My first collision with the adamantine wall of Vivamayr house rules coincided with my arrival.—
Caity Weaver,
New York Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Rock-ribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rock-ribbed. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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