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"The way I see it, I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it's over," she told French Vogue magazine, external in 2024.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Reliable figures on the number of people fired or disciplined are hard to come by, but a Reuters tally last November found more than 600 instances.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Over more than two hours of heavy-slugging tennis, Rybakina pushed the premier hard court player of this generation to her limit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“The current against us is strong, and we’re paddling as hard as we can,” Margolius said.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Any hard blow to the body causes injured tissue to swell.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
While paintings are still taken, they're harder to sell, so around 10 years ago, thieves began shifting to goods that are easier to get rid of, Brand says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Exact numbers of Afghan civilian deaths are harder to come by, but we know they are in the tens of thousands.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Quantum systems are much harder to protect because the information they use is extraordinarily delicate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Kugelman says Brics has become more significant through its expansion, but that has also made consensus harder.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Plus, deleting the post might make things harder for Traveler at his school.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
The area historically has been hardest hit by high surf when powerful waves pass between the Alamitos Bay jetty and the breakwater which together act as a barrier between the ocean and the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Fly is the hardest thing to talk about.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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