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
  • The win last weekend pushed the Current’s unbeaten streak to 11 games and clinched a playoff berth with more than two months remaining until the postseason actually begins.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2025
  • After Chelsea went unbeaten last season, who will most likely beat them this season and how?
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 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
  • Though singer-songwriter and countercultural icon Marianne Faithfull died earlier this year, at the age of 78, this witty, provocative, and playfully post-modern docu-bio is sure to keep her indomitable spirit alive.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Roc is at his best skillfully weaving internal and external rhymes together, crafting scenes of his charmed life as an indomitable hustler who can’t be shown up, intimidated, or outrhymed.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Oregon went undefeated during the 2024 regular season and beat Penn State in the Big Ten championship game.
    Anne M. Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Brewer’s win came against Saginaw, which won an undefeated district title last season.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 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
  • Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are seemingly unstoppable, and their building has a seemingly infinite number of murders in this Hulu mystery comedy.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • How about unstoppable spending on the People’s Liberation Army?
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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