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flinty

[flin-tee] / ˈflɪn ti /


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Their pay has been frozen at the equivalent of $100 a year ever since flinty voters etched it into the state constitution back in ’89.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 21, 2026

But there is still a combination of flinty determination and composure under pressure that has restricted England to just eight victories in 46 meetings across more than a century.

From BBC Nov. 15, 2025

"It's a big old cheese -- there's a lot going on. The texture is beautiful: it's flinty as you break it apart; the crystalline in there are so delicate," he said.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

Sweat, who is 70, has a golfer’s tan, flinty eyes, and a shirt unbuttoned just a little too far.

From Slate Nov. 6, 2025

One was gaunt, with flinty eyes, a long white beard, and a face as hard as a winter frost.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Gugino’s Sisco is flintier that Lopez's, and shades of her personality show up in “Jett.”

From Salon Jun. 20, 2019

Colman and Weisz are Lanthimos veterans, and Weisz is even flintier here than she was in “The Lobster.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 16, 2018

Dave Murphy, however, remained flintier in the aftermath: never able to fully unload himself of three years’ worth of layered fury.

From The Guardian Oct. 13, 2015

But as a committed avant-gardist — as rooted in the flintier subcultures of jazz as he is in noise and doom metal — he also understands the purpose of a conceptual frame.

From New York Times May 20, 2013

The longma beat its wings, and Anja’s voice grew flintier.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

It would take the flintiest heart not to feel for Jofra Archer.

From BBC May 16, 2023

The Granite State features some of the country's best cross-country skiing trails and resorts, and cross-country skiing is generally regarded as the flintiest of winter sports.

From Slate Oct. 8, 2013

Graeme’s appeal touched even the flintiest hearts among the conservative commentariat.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2012

By then Tandy was more than an actress; she was a living monument to the old- fashioned belief in survival of the flintiest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The folds of his stomach were so numerous that they digested even the hardest and flintiest of corn.

From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane




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