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the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Assume the role of the hard-nosed journalist, skeptical investor, or cautious head of HR.
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Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Both of those are hard-nosed defenses, similar to the playing style Peppers has always brought to the field.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
This reality presented the Kremlin with a dilemma of whether to continue the hard-nosed course, ignoring Trump’s threats—or try to assuage him.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Katie Honan, a hard-nosed City Hall reporter for the nonprofit newsroom The City, was there to cover the opening of a new campaign office for Adams’s independent, desperate, long-shot bid to win reëlection.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Both of those are hard-nosed defenses, similar to the playing style Peppers has always brought to the field.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
This reality presented the Kremlin with a dilemma of whether to continue the hard-nosed course, ignoring Trump’s threats—or try to assuage him.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025
Katie Honan, a hard-nosed City Hall reporter for the nonprofit newsroom The City, was there to cover the opening of a new campaign office for Adams’s independent, desperate, long-shot bid to win reëlection.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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