hard stuff
Example Sentences
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This leaves me optimistic... it shows us that we can still do this stuff, the really hard stuff.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
They’ve gone through so much together, she says, it’s “easy to get to the hard stuff really quick.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
No, Moore goes for the hard stuff: wailing saxophones, arrhythmic bass lines, drums that follow beats so out of time they might as well come from the deepest reaches of space.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025
Most of all, they needed to understand why we do all this hard stuff, and how to get through it — so I put together “My Mother’s Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving.”
From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025
I need the hard stuff, like Jacques Torres or one of those giant double-chocolate-chip Levain Bakery cookies.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.