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steelman

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aeelmnstStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a male worker engaged in making steel

Word origin

From steel + -man. For the second definition, coined as the inverse of straw man.

Used in a sentence

  • a "steel man" is an improvement of someone's position or argument that is harder to defeat than their originally stated position or argument.
  • I want to make that strawman into a steelman, but I eliminated "the pursuit of happiness" from my to-do list so many years ago that I don't even know where I'd begin.
  • I don't agree with the argument, because of 4. If I were to steelman it, which I may try but after work or maybe during lunch, I would first try to make it impervious to this assault:

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