hidebound
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John Nagl, who strongly felt that the Army’s top brass were too hidebound to the old ways of warfighting—large-scale tank-and-infantry battles—and were blocking the promotions of officers who were fighting counterinsurgency battles in the field.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
The hidebound company, overly reliant on mainframe computers, had been out-hustled by nimbler makers of desktop computers and software.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 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
The production, which was at the Park Avenue Armory earlier this season, has arrived at the St. James Theatre in the role of deus ex machina, rescuing Broadway from its hidebound habits.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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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