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iron

[ahy-ern] / ˈaɪ ərn /


NOUN
hard, ferrous metal
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Trent apparently can hit a 5 iron 200 yards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Guard Quentin Grimes has been a preseason iron man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

It is important that teenage girls, especially, get enough iron and calcium, so Ludlam-Raine says not to become overly focused on protein at the expense of other nutrients.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Diversification across mining services, iron ore and lithium better protects earnings and cash flow, with free cash flow yields positive across all our price scenarios,” analyst Annabelle Sleeman says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Phineas had his tamping iron made to order by a neighborhood blacksmith.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

My irons, I go back and forth between TaylorMade and Mizuno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The EV incentives will take effect in the coming weeks as the California Air Resources Board irons out agreements with dealerships.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Tesla has “lots of irons in the fire” that could help shares move higher, Kallo said in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

Meanwhile, Rebel Wilson won worst actress for "her not-quite-believable performance as an action hero in Bride Hard with weaponised curling irons".

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Pollard tipped back in the irons and Seabiscuit tugged on his hands, picking off six furlongs in 1:12X, marvelous time.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Russian Daniil Medvedev, a former world number one and the 2021 US Open champion, said the more focus on the sport the better, and any problems can be ironed out.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

These issues need to be ironed out quickly by the coaching staff as their Europa League qualification hangs in the balance prior to Thursday's second leg against Jagiellonia Bialystok.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

It is a thorny legal question that hasn’t been fully ironed out in the courts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Honey and others ironed out the technical details of merging information from different agencies and crafted data-sharing contracts.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

My mother normally ironed all the clothes as soon as Parvin pulled them off the clothesline—it kept the cotton kamizes from getting hopelessly wrinkled—but today the clothes still sat in their basket untouched.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

She said a lot of the props have "a personal touch" too, from her mum's ironing board to her granny's lampshade in the living room.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The deceptively simple work is part sculpture, part assemblage, part collage and features a vintage wooden ironing board set beside a white sheet hung on a line with six wooden clothespins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

“What the 60-day window is actually for is ironing out the thorniest details,” Henrietta Treyz, director of economic policy at Veda Partners, wrote in a note.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Duchamp’s seeming disinterest often revealed itself to be something far more venomous, as when he fantasized about a nihilistic readymade: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing board.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Mom is washing and ironing all of the curtains.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King


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