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Recent Examples of tough-minded
At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.
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Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Everyone in the studio nods along to Paco’s tough-minded flexes and mafioso folktales.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
There are no Cooper Flagg’s on St. John’s, but there are all these tough-minded and talented players so much fun to watch, RJ Luis Jr. and Zuby Ejiofor and Kadary Richmond and Deivon Smith, who powered through the Big East Tournament with a shoulder injury.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
Incoming players must fit his culture, be tough-minded and play with maximum effort and a fierce play demeanor.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
James is quite tough-minded about the limits of radical chic.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Friday night announcement was criticized by some journalists as a way to score political points and penalize tough-minded news outlets.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Johnson is viewed as innovative, creative and somewhat tough-minded in his coaching style.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The Heat are always a tough-minded unit and it's reflected in their performance.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Everyone in the studio nods along to Paco’s tough-minded flexes and mafioso folktales.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Apr. 2025
There are no Cooper Flagg’s on St. John’s, but there are all these tough-minded and talented players so much fun to watch, RJ Luis Jr. and Zuby Ejiofor and Kadary Richmond and Deivon Smith, who powered through the Big East Tournament with a shoulder injury.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2025
Incoming players must fit his culture, be tough-minded and play with maximum effort and a fierce play demeanor.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
James is quite tough-minded about the limits of radical chic.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Friday night announcement was criticized by some journalists as a way to score political points and penalize tough-minded news outlets.
—Brian Stelter, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
Johnson is viewed as innovative, creative and somewhat tough-minded in his coaching style.
—Steve Silverman, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The Heat are always a tough-minded unit and it's reflected in their performance.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tough-minded
Adjective
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Matchmaking has granted Lucy a coolly pragmatic, unsentimental view of love.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking—including a touch of unsentimental magic realism involving a wise and beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This makes the usually levelheaded Venita’s behavior make way more sense.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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But LaVine attacked this season with vigor, reshaping himself into a levelheaded leader and efficient scorer who earned quiet praise around the league.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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President Donald Trump’s court challenge failed during his first term because his administration did not provide the U.S. Supreme Court with a rational government basis for terminating the program.—
Darren Soto,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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The lowest level is known as rational basis review, and almost every law looked at that way is upheld.—
Mark Sherman,
Chicago Tribune,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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For Brembo, this is much more than product placement and it’s integrated in a way that’s organically sensible.—
Kristin Shaw,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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If traditional sandwiches were greasy and chaotic, the province of children and cartoon slobs, wraps were tidy and sensible, the province of working women with slim hips and pin-straight hair.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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While nothing is set in stone yet, this weekend would be the most logical time.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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In an interview with People about the move, Bateman said twice that most people listen to podcasts on phones, and therefore the telecom industry is a logical one for podcasters to enter.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Too often, leaders are stuck between moral maximalism and cynical cost-cutting.—
HEC Paris Insights,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.—
The Editors,
National Review,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Sanchez, who first started at the company in 1993, told Fortune there are two key practices that keep him sane and firing on all cylinders.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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But Leslie kept me sane through those last months of chemo, staging karaoke contests with fake mikes.—
Noor Hassan,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Tough-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tough-minded. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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