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
Katahdin is in Baxter State Park, which takes a certain hearty pride in its devotion to ruggedness and deprivation.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
