hard-pressed

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It’s an incredible level of control that investors would be hard-pressed to find in publicly traded companies.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

In many stretches, you’d be hard-pressed to stroll along the banks of the San Gabriel or Los Angeles rivers without meeting abandoned water bottles, candy wrappers, golf balls, sad-looking teddy bears, even shopping carts.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 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

“I’d be hard-pressed to think anybody would want an investment with so much upfront markup on it,” says Doug Kinsey, founding partner at Artifex Financial Group, an investment-advisory firm in Dayton, Ohio.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

While other tributes that year were hard-pressed to get a handful of grain or some matches for a gift, Finnick never wanted for anything, not food or medicine or weapons.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins