hard sell
Example Sentences
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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
You should be skeptical of companies making a hard sell.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
That is a hard sell and most would seem to accept this as a VAR red card.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
That was as far as the hard sell went.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
