hard-pressed
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“You’ll be hard-pressed to tell any difference just looking with your eyes and not measuring it in some way that it’s different than a normal moon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The Mirror thinks it will be a "Budget for workers", with the chancellor expected to "promise breathing space for hard-pressed households" and pledge "hope" for businesses.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
As skeptical as global investors may be of the budget, they will be hard-pressed to pass up an opportunity to buy euro assets at a generous discount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Japanese authorities are, for example, hard-pressed to conduct an on-site probe into alleged environmental pollution inside the bases and regulate low-altitude flights of their aircraft.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
When a foraging band was hard-pressed by a stronger rival, it could usually move on.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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