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Just like the pre-Civil War slaveholders who rejected the idea of a multiracial democracy, today’s extremists want to roll back hard-won equalizing protections that made America great.
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Jared Nordlund, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025
Happiness suits her, and after the roller coaster that was her 20s (and a bit of her 30s), it’s been hard-won.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 July 2025
Final Thoughts This legislative victory was hard-won and shows the power of informed advocacy.
—Robert Green, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
For Angela Cao, a data scientist and founding member of Women Who Do Data, the ability to feel authentically seen has been hard-won.
—Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
They’re carefully chosen easements, forest reserves and parkland that are ecologically strategic and hard-won.
—Karyn Strickler, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.
—Jonathan C. Slaght, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Such a tragic fall in academic standing, after years of hard-won, steady enhancement in renown.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
There are many reasons to regret this shift toward artificial certainty, starting with the fact that whatever nuance now attached to the topic of pandemic origins has been hard-won.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
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Jared Nordlund, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2025
Happiness suits her, and after the roller coaster that was her 20s (and a bit of her 30s), it’s been hard-won.
—Ellise Shafer, Variety, 8 July 2025
Final Thoughts This legislative victory was hard-won and shows the power of informed advocacy.
—Robert Green, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
For Angela Cao, a data scientist and founding member of Women Who Do Data, the ability to feel authentically seen has been hard-won.
—Jennifer Jay Palumbo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
They’re carefully chosen easements, forest reserves and parkland that are ecologically strategic and hard-won.
—Karyn Strickler, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.
—Jonathan C. Slaght, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Such a tragic fall in academic standing, after years of hard-won, steady enhancement in renown.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
There are many reasons to regret this shift toward artificial certainty, starting with the fact that whatever nuance now attached to the topic of pandemic origins has been hard-won.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
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“Hard-won.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-won. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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