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tough going

ADJECTIVE

strenuous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arduous demanding exhausting laborious taxing uphill

WEAK

effortful energy-consuming hard herculean mean operose toilful toilsome tough wicked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile trivial

WEAK

apathetic effortless enervated lethargic unenthusiastic

Example Sentences

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More broadly, Holz said, it’s tough going for healthcare as a sector.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

But the effort to build it up as a ChatGPT alternative has been tough going.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Some of the passages in this illuminating and essential work are tough going.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

Bristol City have found the WSL very tough going following promotion last season, with just one win from their 13 league matches so far while conceding a league-high 33 goals.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2024

It was tough going through the thick underbrush.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

tough going

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