harsh
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But figuring out who gets what has become a complicated legal battle, underscoring a harsh reality: Even when stolen money is found, getting it back can be another ordeal entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"From a driver's point of view it's quite a harsh circuit," says an excited Abad.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Those genomes revealed genetic features that may have helped northern populations cope with the harsh conditions of the Late Pleistocene.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Most of her clients now are middle-aged men, who often choose deportation over the harsh reality of staying in immigration detention indefinitely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
My eyes ached in the harsh sunlight spearing through the office’s wooden blinds.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
At the same time, they have become progressively vitriolic toward anyone who notes that the era’s realities were much harsher than what was shown on Nick at Nite sitcoms.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Others in the market offered a harsher assessment of Warsh’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Australian victim Bianca Jones' parents also criticised the Laos authorities for not pursuing harsher charges.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
And “Everything,” co-produced by Italian duo Parisi, has the harsher sawtooth grind of contemporary EDM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
It’s one of the harshest penalties in NBA history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
They formed an essential part of the survival strategies that enabled people to live in some of the harshest environments on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
More than half of France's regions are currently under the harshest weather warning, with hundreds of schools ordered to close and highs of 42C hitting Bordeaux on Monday, forecaster Météo-France said.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
They are each other’s first readers and, occasionally, harshest critics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
I came to understand that the way for an old donkey to survive a trek in the world’s harshest desert is for his master to treat him like his own grandmother.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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