hard case
Example Sentences
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It really comes down to finding hard evidence of this — and that’s a hard case to prove.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Kieron Moore’s Slovacek is the hard case who is in the Corps to avoid prison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
The chief judge of the 5th Circuit, Priscilla Richman, wrote the majority opinion and basically just quoted big chunks of the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision to show that this is not a hard case.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2024
“There are so many possibilities that arise when you take machines and robots out of the hard case and engineer them out of materials that are soft and squishy.”
From Scientific American • Apr. 12, 2023
When the caterpillar makes itself a hard case and becomes a chrysalis, you should put this where you can see it every day.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
