hidebound
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Over time, cadets concentrating in social sciences formed an elite enclave, which became an object of resentment and ridicule among some more hidebound officers.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2026
And away from it, he has set out to reshape the hidebound culture of English cricket to suit the 2020s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The agency was just like the Saginaw he’d run from, Dudek said: an insular, hidebound place where everyone knew everyone and they all thought innovation would cost them their jobs.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025
In the State House, Ms. Haley resisted the rules of the state’s famously hidebound political club, said Tom Davis, a Republican and one of a small handful of state senators who have endorsed her.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024
As additional proof from other laboratories and experiments accumulated in the 1950s, even the most hidebound skeptics had to convert into believers.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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