Synonyms for Flint
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1. flintnoun

   a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

2. Flint, Flint Rivernoun

   a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

3. Flintadjective

   a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

   Antonyms:
   softhearted, soft-boiled

4. flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stonyadjective

   showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

   "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

   Synonyms:
   rocklike, rocky, unrepentant, stony, flinty, granitelike, granitic, bouldered, obdurate, flint, cussed, obstinate, bouldery

   Antonyms:
   soft-boiled, softhearted

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1. • Georgia
   • River
   • Silica

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1. List of paraphrases for "flint":

   glassy, vitreous

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1. flint

   Synonyms:
   Silica, see there
   

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1. Virginia Tech:

   What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously.

2. Peter Hsiao:

   I think in Flint they ’ll have the same difficulties.

3. Marc Edwards:

   I will not stand by, silently, as any false claims are made about dangers in Flint water….whether they were made by the State of Michigan falsely claiming the water was safe before October 2015, or by an actor who came to Flint after the federal emergency was declared and made unfounded allegations that the water was dangerous for showering or bathing.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   The bottom line is, when you left that meeting, you thought, 'What country am I living in? Is this the United States of America?' I fear that Flint is the canary in the coal mine here.

5. Hillary Clinton:

   What would you do for the people of Flint in your first 100 days?