hard
adjective
not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
Example Sentences
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Heart disease remains humanity’s top killer, yet for drugmakers and Wall Street, it is becoming one of the hardest places to make money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Convincing individuals of this, particularly those personally affected like the petitioning New Yorkers, will be the hardest part of moving forward.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
That uncertainty matters because clouds are one of the hardest things to represent in the computer simulations scientists use to project future warming.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Navier-Stokes is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, a list of the hardest open questions in mathematics drawn up by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Then we just went hungry, and those were the days, with no food inside us, when it was hardest to keep ourselves warm, even if we could manage to make a fire.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
