ironclad

He says he took the three-year fellowship in England because he was assured that Cambridge had an ironclad attachment to free speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Five years ago, a seemingly ironclad test of whether something was conscious was to see if you could have a conversation with it.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

It also reaffirms the UK and Poland's "ironclad commitment" to Nato and speaks of migrant smuggling being a "shared challenge requiring joint solutions".

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Even if bubble fears are misplaced—remember, statistical observations are just that, not ironclad predictions—this trend is still noteworthy.

From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025

Most verbs that take subjectless complements, such as try in Alice tried to calm down, are governed by an ironclad rule that forces the overt subject to be identical to the missing subject.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Mebby I oughtnt say we took it becus it was the ironclads that done it.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt