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“I get that it’s always hard to debate about the future because it hasn’t happened yet,” Zuckerberg said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“She’s literally commenting about how she’s not a criminal and just hard working lmao.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The whole system cost £15,000 and "a lot of elbow grease and hard work" to install but it is not unique.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“You have to be obsessive. I worked hard but I wasn’t willing to do that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The possibility of a closed brain injury is why doctors fuss if you bang your head falling off a bicycle or crashing a car or getting hit hard in the head with anything.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
But building the specialized aircraft is a time-consuming process, made harder by a nine-year production gap that left the complex supply chain in tatters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Some major chip names that aren’t in the index have fallen even harder.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The claim that ELI has taken the same approach in China and the U.S. is even harder to credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Turbulent winds created by the fire clouds can send embers shooting off in all directions, making wildfires unpredictable and harder to fight.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
By summer’s end 1853, spirit believers were still plentiful, though new recruits were harder to find.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Your mom is about to go through what I imagine will be one of the hardest periods of her life.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
They are creative projects with the sneaky ability to hollow you out sometimes, especially when the story requires you to watch someone move through a series of the hardest days of their life.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
New York-based Haitian American artist Lyne Lucien said "one of the hardest parts of this decision is the uncertainty it creates."
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Her district, arguably, would be one of the hardest places to protect daily recess.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
I try my hardest to get it together, to stop crying like such a baby in front of him, but I just end up crying harder.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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