hard-pressed

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That’s especially useful during a global event like the World Cup—when even the most devoted soccer fan is hard-pressed to keep track of every group-stage result, knockout permutation, and concurring match windows.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026

“You’d be hard-pressed to find many filmmakers that have had the run of quality that he has,” says Michael Barker, co-president and co-founder of Sony Pictures Classics, Almodóvar’s long-standing North American distribution partner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

"When you look at the biggest tournaments, you'd be hard-pressed to find another that's bigger than this one, especially for myself."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

I’m hard-pressed to think of any movie I’d watch four times in a month if I didn’t genuinely admire it on some level.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz