tough-minded

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Recent Examples of tough-minded 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 This approach is not new; it could also be called tough-minded diplomacy. Dan Caldwell, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2024 There’s a radical, tough-minded generosity here that punches right through the wall of our moment’s hypersensitivity around appropriation. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024 For the British government, that requires tough-minded honesty about the United Kingdom, the balance of power, and the state of the world. David Lammy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024 Under tough-minded presidents, that has occasionally happened. Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2024 Against them, there is the tough-minded continual splendor of Robinson’s attention to Genesis’ figures in the landscape. Francis Spufford, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Seesaw first half Izzo and Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell are known for their tough-minded, defense-first teams. Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tough-minded
Adjective
  • But an unsentimental assessment of the regional landscape offers some sense of how Trump could proceed.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This lyrical but unsentimental book is a eulogy for transhumance—the seasonal movement of livestock and the people who watch over them.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
    Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • The first spot, which bowed last week, features SportsCenter anchor Elle Duncan as a levelheaded wedding crasher.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • As brutal as the action looks on the surface, there is some rational trading taking place, even if some of the moves in individual stocks end up being overdone.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Our rational impulses are so automatic, and so strong, that we’re now faced with the problem of what to do with the irrational.
    Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Another sensible name is Seahawks defensive backs coach/passing game coordinator Karl Scott, who’s been with the Seahawks since 2022.
    Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The actuarial table that made such a decision sensible—and profitable—existed inside Franklin’s head, right next to all those ideas that ended up in the Declaration of Independence.
    Scott Z. Burns, airmail.news, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In the absence of that, there may be a need for an arbiter, with Igbokwe and Berwick’s boss, Langley, as the logical choice.
    Peter White, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The policy becomes logical when considering the incubation periods of STDs and how those timelines differ between illnesses.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The cynical reactions only proved that these two young men, who have made millions as bro influencers with brand empires before age 30, are still adept at courting attention.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025
  • After all, dance pop’s supposedly liberating power has often been hijacked over the years for cynical ends, such as Target commercials and Katy Perry albums.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This may be true, but what sane person would exchange the gleaming city at 3 a.m. for the farmhouse at 9 P.M., with all the exhausted hoers and threshers briefly asleep until the next dawn’s labor begins again?
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Upcoming trustee elections represent a chance for sane graduates of the troubled institution to push it in the right direction -- despite the university’s interference.
    Jack Fowler, National Review, 19 Jan. 2025

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“Tough-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tough-minded. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.

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