hardness
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It is a pas de deux of contrasts—roughness and polish, hardness and softness, danger and safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The experiments showed that this additive manufacturing strategy can preserve the hardness and mechanical strength typically achieved through conventional manufacturing methods.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
You have to have what they wanted but with mental hardness, resilience and toughness combined with it.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
USC coach Lincoln Riley said after the Trojans’ victory in the Las Vegas Bowl, “There’s a toughness and a hardness that’s developing within this program.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2025
“I can’t believe you hid this from me for all these years,” she says with an unfamiliar hardness in her voice.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
From Essays on Paul Bourget by Twain, Mark
The rest, though they are not free from certain hardnesses, have a pathos and greatness in their simplicity, sufficient to endear the legitimate Sonnet to every Reader of just taste.
From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Seward, Anna
Footnote 9: For table of hardnesses of different woods, see Sargent, Jesup Collection, pp.
From Wood and Forest by Noyes, William
Her patient, gentle, tender care had impressed him with reverence; he was magnetized by her sphere of unselfishness, forgiveness and goodness, and some of the hardnesses of his own nature were melted away.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
Vocabulary lists containing hardness
Earth Science - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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