hard-pressed

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Few expect the good times to keep rolling indefinitely, but you would be hard-pressed to find a major bank predicting anything except more gains in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Pat coached, befriended and mentored countless students throughout the years and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone anywhere who has an unkind word to say about him," his family wrote.

From BBC

But Mamdani would be hard-pressed to remove Adams’s appointees next year.

From The Wall Street Journal

But Warner and its chief executive, David Zaslav, might be hard-pressed to keep turning away David Ellison, CEO of Paramount.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes Autumn knows how I feel before I even tell her, which means I’d be hard-pressed to get anything past her.

From Literature