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- adjective
superlative form ofhard-won : mosthard-won .
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Examples
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I just smile to myself, remembering my hardest-won lesson: that accepting my vulnerability was the only path toward feeling safe.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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I just smile to myself, remembering my hardest-won lesson: that accepting my vulnerability was the only path toward feeling safe.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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I just smile to myself, remembering my hardest-won lesson: that accepting my vulnerability was the only path toward feeling safe.
Falling Apart in One Piece Stacy Morrison 2010
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We asked 16 photographers to share their hardest-won images and the wild, sometimes foolish, and invariably bold adventures behind them.
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The hardest-won point for me would have probably been the first one, dragging that thirteen-pound turkey across state lines on my back.
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Final exams have come and gone this year at the University of Michigan, but the school's hardest-won passing grade didn't arrive until last week.
'Race Still Matters' 2007
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Two more S.O.S. calls went up before dinner-time, but a day of tremendous heavy fighting ended with our men in glorious possession of some of the hardest-won ground in the history of the Division.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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Lord Methuen, in congratulating the troops upon their achievement, spoke of 'the hardest-won victory in our annals of war,' and some such phrase was used in his official despatch.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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WITH A FLICK of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want.
Daily News-Record 2009
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With a flick of his pen, President Barack Obama finally laid to rest Freud's most famous question and iterated one of man's hardest-won lessons: Women want what women want.
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