hard case
Example Sentences
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This is usually gratifying work, but in “Vigil” she encounters a hard case: the oil baron K.J.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
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
He’s now a tattooed, weathered hard case who somehow managed to maintain his Adonis-like body in lockup.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2022
If you don’t know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
