hardened
Example Sentences
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He said the rank and file had been hardened “in the fight against corruption” and praised them as “entirely trustworthy.”
The choice of many schools and companies to convert therapeutic language into policy has hardened these cultural preferences into rules with administrative force.
Aggressive and revolutionary from the start, Iran’s regime has hardened into what the historian Ali M. Ansari calls an “Islamic security state.”
By about 6pm, tension had hardened both inside the factory and on the street.
From BBC
But since his resignation last weekend, Treasury concerns were said to have hardened.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
