hardness
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The experiments showed that this additive manufacturing strategy can preserve the hardness and mechanical strength typically achieved through conventional manufacturing methods.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
You have to have what they wanted but with mental hardness, resilience and toughness combined with it.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
USC coach Lincoln Riley said after the Trojans’ victory in the Las Vegas Bowl, “There’s a toughness and a hardness that’s developing within this program.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2025
And the novelist Richard Ford once made it clear that questioning Ms. Munro’s mastery over the short story would be akin to doubting the hardness of a diamond or the bouquet of a ripened peach.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
Her face was a round and freckled apple, but there was hardness in her eyes.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing hardness
Earth Science - Middle School
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