harsh
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Another reason for this year’s harsh software-sector declines could be the expectation of slowing sales growth for many companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Many who took up the offer have since moved back -- put-off by harsh winters and low wages.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Prospects of a ceasefire with Russia remain slim and Ukraine faces another harsh winter of war.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But if county analysts are correct, those good feelings will be tested in the harsh cutbacks to come over the next three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
By the summer of 1814, Dolley Madison’s lavish White House parties had given way to the harsh realities of war.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
After her husband's death, she campaigned for legal changes to see harsher sentences for the manslaughter of emergency workers on duty.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Australian victim Bianca Jones' parents criticised the Laos authorities for not pursuing harsher charges.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute said harsher prison conditions are a reflection of the pain Israelis felt after Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Sonnenshine and the “Little House” writers walk a fine line between the harsher recent revelations concerning the ways Ingalls’ bootstrapping mythology in the books doesn’t square with history or reality.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Perhaps there was now a harsher light at the top of the stairs, for she had never had this difficulty with the mirror there before.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Excommunication is one of the harshest punishments that can be given by the Church, effectively expelling the offender from the religion and excluding them from Catholic life.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
“There is no biological reason. The vacuum of space is the harshest environment you can possibly imagine to keep humans alive in.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Said Moore: “I was his harshest critic on the field.“We’re going back and forth and he was right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 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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