hardened

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Hardened by the failures that once defined his baseball mortality.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

Hardened aid officials with long careers trying to help civilians in warzones have told me they have never seen anything as bad.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024

Hardened by years of smoldering war in their country’s east, and in any case not inclined to contemplate catastrophe right before the holiday, many have put the risk out of mind.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021

The tossing spray of Cocheco's fall Hardened to ice on its rocky wall, As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn, Three women passed, at the cart-tail drawn!

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2021

Hardened to fatigue, brave but idle, they leave all the housework to their wives, of whom they have many, polygamy being an institution amongst them.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.