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Recent Examples of rock-ribbed
The daily newspapers, including the rock-ribbed conservative Los Angeles Times, lampooned Sinclair mercilessly.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
While the Democrats have completely revamped their primary calendar, the Republicans have remained the party of rock-ribbed tradition.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
While the Democrats have completely revamped their primary calendar, the Republicans have remained the party of rock-ribbed tradition.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rock-ribbed
Adjective
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That narcissism, combined with a lack of understanding regarding the risks of the Titan, resulted in an unbending belief in his own creation.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
11 June 2025
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Obama’s second-term quest at a border bill similarly crashed into unbending opposition.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
21 July 2025
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Political leaders in both countries found advantage by pointing to an implacable foe at critical moments of domestic vulnerability.—
WILLIAM HURST,
Foreign Affairs,
3 July 2025
Adjective
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The administration has clamped down on immigrants with hard-line policies designed to deter migration.—
Billal Rahman
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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That is a much more hard-line way of stating what Trump has already pledged himself: that the United States is willing to get weapons to Ukraine but only if European allies pay for them.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC news,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Each tour, capped at 16 guests, delivers ambitious and uncompromising experiences.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
29 July 2025
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Sparked by the good early form of James Maddison, Tottenham briefly looked like title contenders, with an incredibly uncompromising form of football.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Sunday’s Euro 2025 final between England and Spain is a rematch of the 2023 World Cup final in what will be the battle of the immovable object versus the unstoppable force.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
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However, the seemingly unstoppable force of the Trump administration’s MAHA push may meet the immovable object of decades-old, powerful lobbying barriers from U.S. agriculture, putting a damper on the prospect of cane-sugar Coke in the U.S.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 July 2025
Adjective
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There are umbrellas at Queen’s Club, too, but only to shelter from the unyielding, scorching heat.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
20 June 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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These changes stem from patient feedback, case reviews and a relentless curiosity about emerging techniques.—
Sacha Obaid,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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When August rolls around, there’s finally an end in sight to the relentless summer heat and humidity.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 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 21 Aug. 2025.
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