as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
an indurate heart that admits no love or mercy
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as in to freeze
to become physically firm or solid
clay that had been indurated by long exposure to the summer sun
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as in to strengthen
to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure
such a brutal upbringing could only callous his soul and indurate his heart to the suffering of others
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Recent Examples of indurate
Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
Adjective
His characters strive to achieve things—such as love, self-command, or financial success—but those efforts are made ironic in the face of a world that, while sometimes beautiful to look at, remains indurate to human happiness.
—Scott Bradfield, The New Republic, 24 Jan. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indurate
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The lawyer who normally practices in New York is gregarious, quick with a joke and always happy to talk to the media, but can be ruthless in cross-examination.—
Andrew Dalton,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
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City are going through some stuff, Arsenal aren’t ruthless enough, Chelsea are wobbling, teams will figure out how to beat Nottingham Forest soon enough, Newcastle are the form team now but are an Alexander Isak injury away from trouble.—
Carl Anka,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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Across the country, including in the New York area, temperatures plummeted below freezing on Monday.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Many Northwest Indiana school districts will shift to an e-learning day on Tuesday due to freezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Do these exercises to help stretch and strengthen your hands, wrists, forearms and elbows.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2025
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This mandate also involves building and strengthening public health laboratories to watch out for disease trends as well as guide containment efforts.—
Simar Bajaj,
NPR,
28 Jan. 2025
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The funniest movie ever made about the experience of being snubbed for an Oscar nomination, For Your Consideration found Christopher Guest and company moving away from their patented mockumentary format for this hilarious and merciless satire.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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But some part of her yearns to be merciless—to make all these women confess.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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These processes need to be sufficiently hardened by providers to prevent trivial abuse by these attackers and to maintain the security benefits of using passkeys.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Let the wax harden before popping the waxy dryer lint firestarters out of the carton.—
Rabekah Henderson,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2025
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Analysis found the samples were ordinary chondrites, the most common type of stony meteorite found on Earth, accounting for about 86 percent of all space rocks recovered.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Netanyahu is far more popular in Israel now than before the war and the Egyptian leader, who has viciously persecuted its parent organization, the global Muslim Brotherhood, has been reprieved by Western creditors in reward for maintaining a stony silence over Gaza.—
Max Rodenbeck,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.—
Alia Wong,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2023
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Whether those numbers are an overstatement, or possibly an understatement, is hard to say.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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“Indurate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indurate. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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