rugged
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On May 28, GoPro announced that its new Mission 1 line of products was available, describing the series as "the world's smallest, lightest, and most rugged 8K and 4K Open Gate cinema cameras."
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Now fear clouds the memories: Does the rugged, magical place of my mind’s eye still exist?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
The species grows only in rugged terrain near the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia.
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
Still, it wasn’t hard to look at that long, lean body and wonder if it was rugged enough for the NBA.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Ang Dorje hailed from Pangboche, an aggregation of stonewalled houses and terraced potato fields clinging to a rugged hillside at 13,000 feet.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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