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Recent Examples of tough-minded
However, both are smart, tough-minded and experienced players who understand their responsibilities and will take care of business on an every-down basis.
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Steve Silverman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.
—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
Steve Silverman, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
At times, the Administration seemed to be testing how much destruction Americans would tolerate, if it was packaged as tough-minded business wisdom.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tough-minded
Adjective
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Manfred may have goofy-looking curly blonde hair, but Mikkelsen portrays him as strong-willed and devoted to his brother, with a dignified stiffness that is both poignant and unsentimental.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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But that’s no reason to discount nor dismiss his unsentimental directorial debut, an authentic and brutal experience illustrating the battles warring inside the head of a troubled guy just released from prison after serving 153 days.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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However, successfully shifting AI initiatives from intriguing pilots into measurable, bottom-line-driving assets remains a challenge.—
Dimitar Dimitrov,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trump himself has learned some of that same bottom-line pragmatism where the party is concerned.—
Bill Barrow,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Aug. 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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Collins will play Louis, White Sun’s good-natured and levelheaded cousin.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
17 July 2025
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This makes the usually levelheaded Venita’s behavior make way more sense.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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So there is no logic or any rational decisions made.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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The appellate court had held that the INS could not rely on these immigration sweeps but, rather, needed to articulate objective facts and rational inferences to support a reasonable suspicion that each person detained is undocumented.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The decision to have Keith Andrews succeed Thomas Frank as head coach is a sensible one.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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This can, at first glance, appear sensible to an organization mired in firefighting, where every day reveals another problem.—
Nelson P. Repenning,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Searching for a logical progression from The Office and like-minded comedies, so far The Paper has come up with a strange, often funny hybrid, with characters experiencing Parks and Rec idealism and Office-style fluorescent-light tedium simultaneously and sometimes incoherently.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Without a body to put to rest, even when there is no other logical conclusion than death, people can imagine and cling to the most improbable of alternatives.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Tough-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tough-minded. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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