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"We want to raise more awareness of this and for people to understand, this is tough," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

September is notoriously tough on the stock market, but investors might be able to exhale now that Labor Day is here.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

She found Finch after a tough semester of graduate school where she felt like she was “falling apart as a person.”

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Over the preceding few days, Mr. Halevi had asked tough questions about Mr. Gallant’s plan, but by this point he supported it wholeheartedly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I don’t care how tough it is, Papa,” I said.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighter’s mentality.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

The entrepreneur, who for security reasons asked that neither he nor the specific nature of his business be identified, initially thought the calls were coming from neighborhood toughs pretending to have links to crime groups.

From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2022

“Rude Boy,” about the booming generation of young toughs running the streets of Kingston, has since become shorthand for a ska fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2021

Seymour Cassel, an Oscar-nominated character actor who played raconteurs, street toughs and cha-cha-dancing hoodlums and who frequently collaborated with independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, died April 7 at a hospital in Los Angeles.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019

At 8:30 p.m., a group of white toughs met up on a street corner.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

In June, the European Parliament approved tougher migration rules granting authorities much broader detention powers, and allowing for the creation of "return hubs".

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Sweeping aside 23-year-old Faria answered those emphatically, although Alcaraz knows the tests will get tougher if he is able to move further through the draw.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But it is also making remaining managers’ jobs tougher, and potentially discouraging younger workers from pursuing management careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Well, it’s a tough industry, made tougher in part by businesses like Netflix.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

I’d tried to give my cousin a shorter, tougher, Brooklyn-styled nickname, JT.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Merciless in his critique of “sick” bourgeois Europe, Herzen is toughest on his fellow Russians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The UN may also turn to Nepal's porters, accustomed to carrying heavy loads through some of the world's toughest mountain terrain during trekking and climbing expeditions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

This columnist’s three years in the trenches were the toughest yet most enlightening three years of my career.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

As an establishment that has long provided first jobs for young people, the watering hole also speaks to one of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s toughest economic challenges: getting young Britons into work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But it would be the toughest one that they had ever pulled.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright