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Recent Examples of tough-minded
Murphy, a gifted mechanic and a veteran of the Great War, immediately stands out to Clancy as a tough-minded, industrious guy.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2026
Flamboyant and fun, Dirksen was also shrewd, hardworking and tough-minded.
—John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their charges, all teen-agers, with tough-minded compassion.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
The number of ambiguous, tough-minded docs may be dwindling, but the tools to repair a broken world are growing.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Dec. 2025
His dad was a very, very tough-minded person.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
That second unit included Pollard, who was known for being physical and tough-minded during an era when physicality was more celebrated in the NBA, if not always during practice.
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The tough-minded, rigid leadership style that worked during Welch’s era doesn’t fit the needs of modern leadership, especially for younger generations who value vulnerability, authenticity, and emotional intelligence.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Is the group as tough-minded without Thibodeau’s patented verve?
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2026
Flamboyant and fun, Dirksen was also shrewd, hardworking and tough-minded.
—John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
The film is set in and around a maternity home in Liège where the staff look after their charges, all teen-agers, with tough-minded compassion.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026
The number of ambiguous, tough-minded docs may be dwindling, but the tools to repair a broken world are growing.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 7 Dec. 2025
His dad was a very, very tough-minded person.
—Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
That second unit included Pollard, who was known for being physical and tough-minded during an era when physicality was more celebrated in the NBA, if not always during practice.
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
The tough-minded, rigid leadership style that worked during Welch’s era doesn’t fit the needs of modern leadership, especially for younger generations who value vulnerability, authenticity, and emotional intelligence.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Is the group as tough-minded without Thibodeau’s patented verve?
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tough-minded
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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White’s dialogue is unsentimental but rife with anguish; Owen Teague and a seductive, destructive Abbey Lee give the pain its due.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Top- and bottom-line results beat estimates in the fiscal second quarter , but the big Azure unit didn't do well enough to impress investors.—
Jason Gewirtz,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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The company reported fourth-quarter earnings that handily beat Wall Street’s top-line and bottom-line growth forecasts for a ninth consecutive quarter.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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Using these unromantic, 50,000-ton auxiliaries to test the new battleship hull-form, mechanical systems or electrical innovations makes sense.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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The most unromantic, perfect proposal.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
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In the larger world, Canada is emerging as the most levelheaded player out there: far firmer than the United Kingdom, led by Keir Starmer, and less mercurial than France under Emmanuel Macron.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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In a relationship characterized by levelheaded stability, competition between the United States and China would endure.—
Da Wei,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Good, the Bad and the Painterly As Bouancheau fashioned a Puss that was more lyrical, like a character that stepped out of a fairy tale book and less hard-edged, all the other characters followed suit.—
Karen Idelson,
Variety,
23 Feb. 2023
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Published in eScience, the research’s core innovation lies in the rational integration of photoactivity and electrocatalysis within a single air-electrode architecture.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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Quitting seemed not just possible, but rational.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Forest did some sensible business.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Contemporary Germany provides positive, sensible leadership for Europe and beyond.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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That doesn’t make sense to me as a logical move.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2026
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The logical solution, now that most of the desirable free-agent hitters are off the board, is for the Pirates to sign McCutchen to another one-year deal, then make the joint announcement that this season will be his last.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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