hard-pressed
Example Sentences
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She may be hard pressed to avoid one.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
Goals, assists and consistent performances throughout the season, I think you would been hard pressed to find somebody who has delivered as much as Harry, I really do.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
The proliferation of scientific journals has created an almost insatiable need, and professors on the treadmill of grants, research and publishing are hard pressed to fit in such volunteering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Throw in the affordability crisis — from food to energy bills — and you have an economic outlook that Nostradamus would be hard pressed to predict.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 15, 2025
Resavek was a long way off, and even Cob, the most worldly of them, would be hard pressed to find it on a map.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
