Examples of iron

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Of the six tasks, ironing is most disliked: three-quarters of the sample report a negative attitude.
The value of iron's output relative to national income 1780 - 1860 was only 2 per cent.
I guess proper ironing techniques weren't included in the rent-a-cop's how-to manual.
He permitted himself also to regularize the site boundaries, and despite having measured the uneven arcading of the gradually-built cloisters, ironed out all discrepancies.
There is a penchant, almost, for resolving disputes by discussion, by sitting around a table and ironing out one's differences.
One of the wrinkles still to be ironed out is the problem of names.
In a work evidently aiming to be definitive such blemishes should be ironed out in subsequent editions.
Once these have been ironed out this book will surely set the standard for some time into the future.
I prepared the dinner, got to do the washing in the washing machine and hang it up, and ironing and things.
The two irons are tetrahedrally coordinated by inorganic sulfide ions and cysteine residues.
Their once clear and sometimes angular outlines were more and more ironed out and obscured by roulades and other decorative patterns.
In this way diaspora communities are able to subsume all their disparate histories within a single meta-narrative which irons out all the" wrinkles".
One suspects, however, that the contributors would argue that 'connections' are entirely different, in which case the definitional ambiguities need ironing out.
The emissary who alerted his brothers to a threat to their custom deserved two to six years in irons.
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