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Intel’s outlook for the December quarter came in below Wall Street’s expectations, partly due to its struggles against a tough market for personal computers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The company missed revenue expectations, a tough outcome in today’s less-forgiving tech market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

“I’m well aware that it’s tough to have this kind of optimism in this age,” says Boyer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

After a tough run last week, the selling continued at the start of this week with losses in Asian giants followed by their US counterparts on Wall Street where the Nasdaq ended 1.1 percent off.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

After all, I had done the tough thing, hadn’t I?

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

He’s a guy that toughs it out with a smile on his face, and that smile is very disarming to someone else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

The entrepreneur, who for security reasons asked that neither he nor the specific nature of his business be identified, initially thought the calls were coming from neighborhood toughs pretending to have links to crime groups.

From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2022

But it quickly becomes clear that Happy owes more to the rumpled Marlowe played by Elliott Gould in Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” than to any hard-boiled toughs inhabited by Humphrey Bogart.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2021

Farmers, artisans, laborers, and even dockside toughs fought back with more demonstrations, hangings in effigy, and rounds of angry speeches fortified with strong drink and stronger language.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

At 8:30 p.m., a group of white toughs met up on a street corner.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

And the bond market is asking tougher questions about the costs of AI financing.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

There have been tougher visa requirements for international students coming to UK universities in recent years.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The nascent operation has been taking advantage of wide price differences across providers, the types of inefficiencies that have been tougher to come by in mainstream markets such as stocks and options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how metals behave at extremely low temperatures and could help engineers develop tougher materials for some of the harshest environments imaginable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

They cannot be poisoned, for one thing; and their skin seems to be very thick, and tougher than bark.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Two years later, momentum swung again, as the union helped persuade California Gov. Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. to impose the toughest farm labor regulations in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Either way, McDonagh reasons that the guy who once judged his plays superior to others’ remains his own toughest critic: “When you set the bar for your arrogant self, it’s probably a lot higher.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

From Batman masks to offline maps, young Indian protesters have responded to one of New Delhi's toughest security crackdowns with improvised tactics designed to evade surveillance and keep demonstrations alive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

He spent much of the weekend holed up in Wilkinson’s Washington offices, where lawyers took turns role-playing as the judge and peppering lawyers with the toughest questions they could devise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“He has a very hard head. Hard enough to break even the toughest of cups.”

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman