hard sell
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At the same time, they were getting a hard sell from people like Stevens—telling them to not risk missing out on America’s private-lending boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
When it comes to artificial-intelligence investments, individual investors should be wary of Wall Street’s current hard sell, according to Troy McGlone of Heartland Advisors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
In a world where investors are increasingly only interested in artificial intelligence and little else, even retail winners can be a hard sell: Better prospects still often translate into worse stock performance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
That was as far as the hard sell went.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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