ruggedness

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Iryna Terekh, the company’s 33-year-old technical director, compares their reliability to that of the Kalashnikov, a trusty rifle lauded for its ruggedness and simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

Come for the hats, the boots, the horses, the ruggedness once used to sell cigarettes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025

Remarkably, this handwritten-digit recognition capability remained unaffected even when the device was repeatedly bent and stretched up to 1,000 times, demonstrating its ruggedness and feasibility for repeated use.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

This is especially important because, despite their overall adaptability and relative ruggedness, potatoes are actually a pretty finicky thing.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

Perhaps we should return to ourselves, to our own primordial streets, to our own ruggedness, to our own rude hair.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates