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do-or-die
adjective as in last-ditch
adjective as in unbending
Weak matches
- aloof
- distant
- dug in
- formal
- hard as nails
- hard-line
- hold one's ground
- hold the fort
- hold the line
- incompliant
- inelastic
- inexorable
- inflexible
- intractable
- locked-in
- obdurate
- relentless
- resolute
- set in stone
- severe
- single-minded
- standing one's ground
- standing pat
- sticking to one's guns
- stiff
- strict
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- unflexible
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
- uptight
noun as in competition
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Daniels doesn’t feel pressure; he’s laughing in the huddle in do-or-die moments.
"It is big. It's not quite do-or-die time but it's getting pretty close."
He says he felt it for his new Peacock thriller series, "Teacup," where he plays a complicated father and husband whose family is thrown into a terrifying do-or-die mystery.
In any case, nothing about the party’s exhausting, alarmist messaging or its murky self-image is going to change dramatically in the last week before a do-or-die national election.
The game finished with the Dodger bullpen that had been so brilliant in a Game 4 do-or-die win, this time four relievers holding the Padres hitless over the final four innings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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