harsh
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But figuring out who gets what has become a complicated legal battle, underscoring a harsh reality: Even when stolen money is found, getting it back can be another ordeal entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Those genomes revealed genetic features that may have helped northern populations cope with the harsh conditions of the Late Pleistocene.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
She launched herself into the mainstream in the 1960s with an expose of New York City's Playboy Club, documenting the harsh conditions she faced working undercover as a Playboy Bunny.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Most of her clients now are middle-aged men, who often choose deportation over the harsh reality of staying in immigration detention indefinitely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Look across,” Mrs. Mallon said in her harsh voice.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
The justice already visited on her is harsher than any a court might deliver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
Others in the market offered a harsher assessment of Warsh’s performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
The NBA on Wednesday delivered one of the harshest penalties in league history to the Los Angeles Clippers, owned by Steve Ballmer, for what it called a “flagrant violation” of its salary-cap rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
So California and the other two states have, for now, avoided the harshest possible water cuts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The prosecutor general said Kozyura had agreed to share information "constituting state secrets" for financial reward and deserved the harshest punishment.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
I came to understand that the way for an old donkey to survive a trek in the world’s harshest desert is for his master to treat him like his own grandmother.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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