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as in hardship
something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal
the test questions were rated for hardness, a rating of five indicating the most difficult
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as in severity
the quality or state of being demanding or unyielding (as in discipline or criticism)
the aunt's hardness gradually crumbled under the influence of the little orphan's endearing ways
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Courage to all my butterflies in defending softness, tenderness, magic, and sweetness in a world full of hardness.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
The result of this cutting-edge process is a surface hardness of up to an impressive 1200 HV (Vickers hardness) for the HD12 steel.
—Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Every Sunday, teams submit to a gameday certification, mandated by the league and union for more than a decade, that primarily tests the hardness of the natural grass or artificial turf.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Other confounding variables include altitude, water hardness, and the freshness of the coffee.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 13 Sep. 2024
The result of this cutting-edge process is a surface hardness of up to an impressive 1200 HV (Vickers hardness) for the HD12 steel.
—Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Every Sunday, teams submit to a gameday certification, mandated by the league and union for more than a decade, that primarily tests the hardness of the natural grass or artificial turf.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Other confounding variables include altitude, water hardness, and the freshness of the coffee.
—Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardness
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After decades of campaigning by victim groups, Germany’s ruling coalition government proposed in 2021 to set up the hardship fund.Sophie Tanno, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
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Women who were denied abortions experienced immediate and sustained financial hardships.Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Since the intelligence agencies do not usually bother to debunk such individual bits of false propaganda, the sudden flurry of public notifications indicates the severity of the threat that U.S. spies now see in the underlying Russian plot against the election.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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The amount represents around 44 percent of the agency's entire two-year budget, underscoring the severity of the situation, as the commission struggles to manage the state's oil and gas industry effectively.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them.Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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But there are several counties where the difficulty is even higher.Jasmine Cui, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Hardness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardness. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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