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Recent Examples of rock-ribbed
Where there was financial anarchy during the worst of the Snyder Era, there is now rock-ribbed discipline.
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David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
The daily newspapers, including the rock-ribbed conservative Los Angeles Times, lampooned Sinclair mercilessly.
—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
David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
The daily newspapers, including the rock-ribbed conservative Los Angeles Times, lampooned Sinclair mercilessly.
—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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Williams’ cellos pounding those notes over and over, with tuba over them, created a true character for the shark: Relentless, implacable, all-devouring.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 Aug. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Neither a Muslim majority democratic government nor a more hard-line nationalist variant in Iran would sit well with nearby Gulf monarchs.—
David Mednicoff,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
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But there are hard-line conservatives in both chambers who have been calling for the party to back a longer-term stopgap into next year.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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First published in 1977, these reports were mandated with a simple but uncompromising goal: gather the best available information from U.S. embassies, NGOs, journalists, and survivors; verify it through rigorous review; and publish it without political interference.—
Michael Posner,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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This was Sharon at her most uncompromising, unafraid and unwilling to let an industry hide behind silence.—
Funmi Fetto,
Vogue,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For example, the military's ultra-hardened Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites in geosynchronous orbit are designed to operate through an electromagnetic pulse and nuclear scintillation.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
11 Sep. 2025
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The hardened sediment largely contained the mineral brucite — created through alkaline waste interacting with magnesium in the ocean water that resulted in the crust-like surface surrounding the barrels.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Across centuries, rulers who built their power on fear or oppression seemed immovable in their day.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Male silverbacks were virtually immovable, acting as the displacing animal in more than 99% of interactions.—
RJ Mackenzie,
Popular Science,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Based on McCarthy's unyielding ability to keep his head down and continue working, he was announced as the NFC Player of the Week.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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In this state, space expands at a relentless, exponential pace, doubling in size in all three dimensions in just a tiny fraction of a second, and then doubling again and again and again with each subsequent fraction of a second that elapses.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
16 Sep. 2025
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Wedding Dashers features a maid of honor and best man forced to hurdle relentless transportation nightmares together to make it from London to Belfast in time for their dearests’ nuptials.—
Jamie Harrow,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Rock-ribbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rock-ribbed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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