unbowed

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Recent Examples of unbowed Jackie Byers, who helped lead the Black Organizing Project in its bid to abolish the Oakland Unified School District’s police department in the wake of the 2020 protests, is unbowed by the slowing political momentum for police reform. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 25 May 2025 Their stories outraged me and are a testament to the unbowed courage and resilience of our country’s original inhabitants. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025 Long may the maple leaf fly above a sovereign and unbowed north. Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025 If the intention is to end the war, then the war will end with Hamas bloodied but unbowed. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unbowed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbowed
Adjective
  • Under Dragan Stojković, the hosts remain unbeaten in seven matches and have posted clean sheets in their first three qualifying games.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Argentine head coach Sebastian Beccacece, who took over from Felix Sanchez in August 2024, has overseen a run of 10 games without a defeat — the longest unbeaten sequence in Ecuador’s history.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • No canvas has been left un-kitchen-magnetized, no sector of pop culture remains unconquered.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Two Shawnee brothers set up the headquarters for a burgeoning anti-American movement in the unconquered territory along the Wabash River.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Adjective
  • The film picks up only seven months after the conclusion of Downton Abbey: A New Era, taking audiences into a new decade and a world without the indomitable presence of the Dowager Countess, Violet Crawley.
    Mekishana Pierre September 11, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Titipol Phakdeewanich, a political science professor at Ubon Ratchathani University, said that despite the jailing and Shinawatra family's declining influence, the indomitable Thaksin would still attempt to call the shots in politics.
    Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Then, a month later at Wimbledon, Sinner got his win back and ended his rival’s undefeated streak in major competition.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The Kansas City native wanted to predict an undefeated season, but wanted to be realistic.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The seemingly unconquerable fig butterwort (Ficaria verna) invades lowland valleys where seasonal floods carry little broken off bits downstream to sprout anywhere and everywhere.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Mountains as towering, imposing and seemingly unconquerable landscapes have been metaphorically linked to power and challenge.
    Jenny Hall, CNN Money, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • But every time you’re done lifting, your brain feels invincible.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Here in California, our once-invincible white collar economy is beginning to shatter.
    Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Accelerating Coordination Is The Endgame Building the toolkit for unstoppable coordination has always been on crypto’s long-term agenda.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • SkyShowtime gets a raft of glossy Hollywood titles from its parent companies, notably the unstoppable Yellowstone franchise.
    Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Luthor has always been an ingenious nemesis for the invulnerable Superman: a merely intelligent human, an evildoing Prometheus out to steal fire from our benevolent cape-wearing god.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But second-strike capabilities are not invulnerable.
    SAM WINTER-LEVY, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2025

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“Unbowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbowed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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