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sturdy

[stur-dee] / ˈstɜr di /


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The best approach is to build a sturdy foundation for your investments and to treat crashes the way insurance companies do natural disasters: know the odds and accept that they happen every so often.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s more interested in tone than in color, but she has a notable sense of sturdy composition.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those sturdy boots saved his life during death marches through snow near the end of the war, he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

I started in the produce aisle, as I often do, scanning the marked-down netted bags — imperfect, but still sturdy and fragrant.

From Salon

At last, we found it: a sturdy Douglas fir with boughs that had pleasant symmetry and enough firmness to carry ornaments.

From The Wall Street Journal