hard-pressed

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But critics say the push to refine should have come sooner, with Zimbabwe already having lost out on several years of revenues for the hard-pressed local economy.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

I’m happy to give the Australians their due, but I’m hard-pressed to see how their design offers any guidance to improving the U.S. system.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026

When people around the world began generating millions, and then billions, of images, Google was hard-pressed to find enough computing power to meet the demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

"Pat coached, befriended and mentored countless students throughout the years and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone anywhere who has an unkind word to say about him," his family wrote.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

Meantime the Trojan camp, fortified only by earthworks and deprived of its leader and its best warriors, was hard-pressed.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton