harsh
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Many who took up the offer have since moved back -- put-off by harsh winters and low wages.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
But its more severe counterpart uses the term koku - meaning harsh or cruel - to describe the heat.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But if county analysts are correct, those good feelings will be tested in the harsh cutbacks to come over the next three years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case and questioned whether the sentence may have been overly harsh.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
He had rendered loyal service, and it was harsh to call him a coward now.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
After her husband's death, she campaigned for legal changes to see harsher sentences for the manslaughter of emergency workers on duty.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Australian victim Bianca Jones' parents criticised the Laos authorities for not pursuing harsher charges.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute said harsher prison conditions are a reflection of the pain Israelis felt after Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the reality of confrontation with alterity is always a harsher affair.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Her voice was harsher than when the caseworker had been there.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
They are each other’s first readers and, occasionally, harshest critics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Russia remains marked by some of the developed world’s harshest mortality rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
A simple row of spruce trees marked the finish line for Canadian army reservists and combat members after a marathon two months pushing through one of the harshest environments on Earth: Canada's vast Arctic.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Some life-forms on earth can survive a long time under the harshest conditions: animal eggs hatch after many years and plant seeds sprout after centuries.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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