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tough going

ADJECTIVE

strenuous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arduous demanding exhausting laborious taxing uphill

WEAK

effortful energy-consuming hard herculean mean operose toilful toilsome tough wicked

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile trivial

WEAK

apathetic effortless enervated lethargic unenthusiastic

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More broadly, Holz said, it’s tough going for healthcare as a sector.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

But the effort to build it up as a ChatGPT alternative has been tough going.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Robins, like so many before him, found life tough going after being appointed as Stoke City's third boss of the season in December.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Some of the passages in this illuminating and essential work are tough going.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025

It was tough going and my pups started whimpering.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

tough going

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