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robust

Bureaucratic
/roʊˈbʌst/adj. (evasive)

Etym.From L. robur, 'hard wood', later redeployed by strategy consultants circa 2009 as a polite substitute for admitting uncertainty; see K. Lorton, Frameworks for Growth, 2011.

Employed to assert resilience against unspecified failures, thereby deflecting requests for tolerances, tests, or concrete failure modes.

'We need a robust architecture before customer rollout' - Q2 Product Review

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