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Recent Examples of toughness
And he’s certainly shown his star quality, toughness and grit.
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Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2025
Historically, mustaches have symbolized virility and toughness.
—Claire Murashima, NPR, 2 July 2025
Collin Murray-Boyles, Toronto (9)— Murray-Boyles, 6-7, saw his stock rise during pre-draft workouts, and his physical play and toughness were a draw for the Raptors, who are small outside of center Jakob Poeltl.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Clayton’s competitiveness and toughness developed as a high school football star, along with his clutch play on college basketball’s biggest stage continued to elevate his NBA stock.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for toughness
Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2025
Historically, mustaches have symbolized virility and toughness.
—Claire Murashima, NPR, 2 July 2025
Collin Murray-Boyles, Toronto (9)— Murray-Boyles, 6-7, saw his stock rise during pre-draft workouts, and his physical play and toughness were a draw for the Raptors, who are small outside of center Jakob Poeltl.
—Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Clayton’s competitiveness and toughness developed as a high school football star, along with his clutch play on college basketball’s biggest stage continued to elevate his NBA stock.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for toughness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toughness
Noun
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There’s an intentional lack of cohesion in her performance as to what she is supposed to mean to him — or to the film, for that matter.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
10 July 2025
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But the presence of journalists disrupted our cohesion.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
5 July 2025
Noun
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The film’s dramatic framework, for all its solidity, incarnates, in its ellipses and asymmetries, the shifting contemporary identities of revered civic masterworks.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
20 June 2025
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This enabled me to take in the solidity of the image, revealing the details in the sets and costumes—the metal coverings of C3PO and R2D2 had never seemed so real.—
Benny Har-Even,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Toughness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toughness. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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