hard
adjective
not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
Example Sentences
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There has to be a level of sacrifice, and you have to be willing to embrace it and enjoy that, which is the hardest part.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Even if he did study his hardest, would he be able to catch up on the math he needed to solve the problems on the exam?
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
