ironclad
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Your biggest hurdle has already been cleared: You have an ironclad prenuptial agreement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
But experts have worried that doctors are hesitating to offer treatment without an ironclad diagnosis, which clinicians say can take time and increase risks to the mother.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Beyond the matter of prestige, celebrities and the uber wealthy say they like the country club because of its ironclad security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
After their private meeting, Zelensky thanked the UK for its "ironclad" support and revealed he planned to invite the King for a state visit to Ukraine in the future.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
That was not, of course, an ironclad promise, but he would accomplish it literally.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
These days, substitute nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic bombers, aircraft carriers, and similar "modern" weapons for the ironclads of his era and the sentiment rings at least as true as it did then.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2023
He also corresponded with French shipyards on the design of Confederate ironclads.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 2, 2021
"A lot of these ironclads are built by house carpenters, they're not built by shipwrights," said Jeff Seymour, historian and curator for the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus.
From US News ● Aug. 16, 2015
Quarstein is the chief development officer of the USS Monitor Foundation and has written three books about Civil War ironclads, as well as working on other topics and PBS documentaries.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2015
After all, wasn’t it true that it was not Grant who had been the victor at Fort Henry, but Admiral Foote and his ironclads?
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Vocabulary lists containing ironclad
The American Civil War
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President Trump's First State of The Union Address (2018)
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