hard-won
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It gives wrong answers with great confidence, and can’t draw on the human factors—judgment calls, unwritten rules and hard-won instincts—that never make it into training data.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
In what was once a cottage industry, startups worth billions now pay humans to distill their hard-won subject-area expertise into lessons for the bots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
They have fund economics, investor relationships, and hard-won reputations that make fighting for these assets the rational move.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Her life has included far more than skating, though, and every one of her students benefit from the hard-won wisdom she learned along the way.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026
By the fall of 1941, then, Elizebeth and William had achieved a measure of hard-won peace.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
