harsh
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Life inside microbial mats can be harsh, and close cooperation between organisms may provide a crucial survival advantage even at microscopic scales.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The last time job creation was that weak was at the start of the year, when an unusually harsh winter and a post-holiday lull put a dent in hiring.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Over the years, harsh criticism proved no match for “Rocky Horror Picture Show’s” unexpected staying power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Canada is an important supplier of energy and potash to the United States, which has avoided harsh tariffs on both types of products.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The children loved hearing how the robot survived mudslides and bear attacks and harsh winter weather.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
At the same time, they have become progressively vitriolic toward anyone who notes that the era’s realities were much harsher than what was shown on Nick at Nite sitcoms.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the wake of PC Harper's death, Lissie Harper campaigned for harsher sentences for the manslaughter of emergency workers on duty.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Before former President Joe Biden named Khan to lead the FTC in 2021, she was best known for a law review article arguing for harsher enforcement of antitrust laws against companies like Amazon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Others in the market offered a harsher assessment of Warsh’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The law says the penalty is harsher if someone should have known of the risks and harsher still—manslaughter—if the person does know the risks and wantonly disregards them.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
North Korea has for decades defied some of the harshest sanctions in the world aimed at forcing its leaders to give up its nuclear and long-range missiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Some of the harshest treatment of these girls was from other women, and that is something which I found very hard to reconcile,” O’Brien said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
They formed an essential part of the survival strategies that enabled people to live in some of the harshest environments on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now settling into life without a position on the council after 46 years, he said it was his views over the controversial closure of Walsall's historic Leather Museum that fuelled his harshest critic.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Those left behind had the task of going on with life even as the harshest snow fell, the bitter cold deepened, the game hid, and the fish sank deeper into the lake.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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