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Recent Examples of ironbound
His work ethic was ironbound, his creativity often chaotic, his studio on Bologna’s Via Gaibola a wunderkammer of sorts where the textile-nerd creative masterminded more brands than arguably any other designer.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
And there are advantages to having no ironbound curatorial concept in play: At least the 30 or so artists get equal time with their varied voices, some mild, some strong, several new to New York.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironbound
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The trick will be getting the word out beyond these relatively insular groups, to a wider audience who won’t care that Black’s creative sphere friends are in the campaigns and collaborating on the clothes.—
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These debates over rhetoric and tactics have been taking place in an insular cultural enclave where forum threads come to vivid life.—
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These two ingredients mixed together creates a powerful mixture perfect for lifting stubborn stains off grout because of their high cleaning and brightening properties.—
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The vinegar cleaning method isn’t foolproof, and sometimes stubborn residue can remain on your microwave walls.—
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Despite the deluge of new data, the megaliths had given up none of their obdurate strangeness.—
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Or perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to become obdurate, go weird and dive into the B-sides and deep cuts.—
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Not when Jaclyn is obstinate and over it.—
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These books can feel obstinate in their refusal of pleasure—an approach that does not seem to interest Berman in the slightest.—
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Working-class voters visiting a Reform clubhouse were more likely to find young professionals discussing weighty matters of foreign policy rather than parochial issues like street paving.—
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Looming over the desk is a giant cross made of yardsticks, those famous instruments of parochial-school torment, formed into a set of crosshairs.—
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The Islamic Republic has lost many of its best and brightest to emigration, and the members of the élite who remain are, in general, from a more provincial background.—
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On Saturday afternoon, an explosive drone hit the Aleppo provincial government building shortly after two Cabinet ministers and a local official held a news conference on the developments in the city, state TV said.—
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From his beginnings in small-town Wyoming to his years at the heart of two Bush administrations, his life traced a path through half a century of American government—marked by strategic mastery, fierce controversy, and an unyielding belief in the exercise of authority.—
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His tone was, as usual, unyielding and certain.—
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Such an effort in this tight residential real estate market is not so easily dismissed as wrongheaded.—
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And what is also new is that Mamdani turned heel on his prior wrongheaded opposition to mayoral control of schools, announcing his support for this crucial power in tandem with his selection of Samuels hours before being sworn into office.—
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“Ironbound.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironbound. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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