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, 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 researcher Marc Edwards:

   Ms. Hedman said the EPA had nothing to do with creating Flint, (but) the EPA had everything to do with creating Flint.

2. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder:

   I want the Flint community to know how very sorry I am that this has happened, and I want all Michigan citizens to know that we will learn from this experience, because Flint River is not the only city that has an aging infrastructure.

3. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder:

   This is about solving problems, improving the water situation in Flint, and actually trying to improve all of Flint for the longer term.

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. Dimple Chaudhary:

   The water in Flint is still not safe to drink because city and state officials are violating the federal law that protects drinking water, we are asking a federal court to step in because the people of Flint simply can not rely on the same government agencies that oversaw the destruction of its infrastructure and contamination of its water to address this crisis.