ironclad

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  1. adjective Sheathed with iron plates for protection.
  2. adjective Rigid; fixed: an ironclad rule.
  3. noun A 19th-century warship having sides armored with metal plates.

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  • It required the unbending stricture implicit in the postulate of objectivity - ironclad, pure, forever undemonstrable. —  WordPress.com News
  • One would think that if the arguements presented were ironclad, they wouldn't be so easy to convolute. —  BlueOregon
  • Still, though Obama may not have made an "ironclad" promise to pick a dog from a shelter, he left the impression the dog would come from a pound, Sabato said.
  • Even if your contract is ironclad, make sure you have a backup plan in place.
  • Burgy … for many of us, "published in World Nut Daily" is a near-ironclad rebuttal in itself. —  RealClimate
 

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/ˈaɪərnklæd/
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