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hard

adjective as in true, indisputable

adverb as in with resentment

adverb as in in a fixed manner

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It was hard to process and realize it was real and it happened.

Just because something is hard to find, doesn’t mean it’s valuable, Keller says.

There will be hard days and recurring struggles, and you should give yourself space for them, she said.

An older cousin had once volunteered with Teen Line, and to Raderman that seemed like a good way to put her hard-won knowledge to use.

This makes it hard to know if you should buy a helmet with rotational-energy tech.

So it wasn’t hard to see where this was heading, because I was seeing it every day at the school.

They “start with the hardest problems first, and that intimidates them.”

They will have a hard time keeping together their 2017 draft class, which was their best in a decade, and they could lose safety Marcus Williams, linebacker Alex Anzalone and defensive end Trey Hendrickson.

Somehow, Reid found a way to live with the losses and kept making the hard calls.

It’s hard to see a situation clearly when you’re still in the middle of it.

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.

My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

All of my stories are about people trying hard not to grow up.

We also have a growing body of biological research showing that fathers, like mothers, are hard-wired to care for children.

They worked just as hard on that as the people who made the good movie did.

Mr. Bachner said it had been hard to introduce his work ethic and share his vision with the locals and his team.

It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.

Recently, historians have been working hard to write books that are more accessible.

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

A more rugged version of American masculinity is hard to find on screen.

But almost to the man, the first thing every ex-con tells me is how hard it is to find work.

Politicians who openly associated with Duke, or his hard-core associates, did so at their own risk.

For years, Cuomo gave me a hard time every time we crossed paths about whether I had cuffs or pleats.

Jay is hard to empathize with and his silence suggests that, yeah, something is up.

So not only will the GOP have control in the Senate, it will move the center of gravity on Capitol Hill hard to starboard.

I am not the most financially literate person (I would be hard-pressed to articulate the term “junk bond”).

Americans move around a lot, making it hard to form attachments to any particular place.

And in the season finale, I cringed so hard that tears finally came out.

It is hard to feel attached to where you are if you are always thinking of where you have been or where you are going.

He thought they were now in touch with our troops at "X" but that they had been through some hard fighting to get there.

However this be, it is hard to say that these fibs have that clear intention to deceive which constitutes a complete lie.

And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.

Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

"I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.

Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

One whist table only is at work; General Pepper and three old hands of the same kidney are hard at it.

Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.

The former, in its frozen state, somewhat resembled hard butter.

His strong hands lay palm downwards on the arms of his chair, pressing them hard.

The pulse in Louis's temples beat hard; yet he was determined not to anticipate, but make Wharton explain himself.

You would notice sotto voce that when ways and means were being discussed, times were always hard.

For Mrs. Robin had an end of a pinkish-white worm in her bill, on which she was tugging as hard as she could.

He thought they looked hard as two blue and shining jewels under their painted brows.

The new forces controlled by mankind have been powerless as yet to remove want and destitution, hard work and social discontent.

The mothers know better than any one else how hard a way the little girl will have to travel through life.

His first hard struggle for deliverance was coincident with his last hour of earthly peace.

Alessandro had hard work to give civil answers to the men who wished to buy Benito and the wagon for quarter of their value.

This man by hard, manual labor makes only enough to pay for humble shelter and plain food.

He walked about, stumbling over sticks and stones and stumps, sometimes falling down on soft moss, and again on the hard ground.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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