Examples of hard-won in a Sentence
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They’re carefully chosen easements, forest reserves and parkland that are ecologically strategic and hard-won.
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Karyn Strickler, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.
—Jonathan C. Slaght, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Such a tragic fall in academic standing, after years of hard-won, steady enhancement in renown.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
There are many reasons to regret this shift toward artificial certainty, starting with the fact that whatever nuance now attached to the topic of pandemic origins has been hard-won.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
The calculation has shifted since, with Meta stealing something much more intimate, deeply personal, and hard-won than data.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 7 May 2025
But Colley said safety measures that were hard-won over the decades should not fade away.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Even for adult adventurers, that type of knowledge is often hard-won over the course of many seasons—and sometimes close calls—in the mountains.
—Zoe Gates, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2025
For Kumar, the jewelry offers a reminder of having been hard-won.
—Sadiya Ansari Spandita Malik, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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Karyn Strickler, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2025
After hundreds of years of persistent persecution—one generation of farmers learning from the previous generation to poison, snare, and shoot wolves—the animals’ near disappearance around the turn of the 20th century was celebrated throughout Europe as the end of a long, bloody, and hard-won war.
—Jonathan C. Slaght, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Such a tragic fall in academic standing, after years of hard-won, steady enhancement in renown.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 June 2025
There are many reasons to regret this shift toward artificial certainty, starting with the fact that whatever nuance now attached to the topic of pandemic origins has been hard-won.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2025
The calculation has shifted since, with Meta stealing something much more intimate, deeply personal, and hard-won than data.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 7 May 2025
But Colley said safety measures that were hard-won over the decades should not fade away.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Even for adult adventurers, that type of knowledge is often hard-won over the course of many seasons—and sometimes close calls—in the mountains.
—Zoe Gates, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2025
For Kumar, the jewelry offers a reminder of having been hard-won.
—Sadiya Ansari Spandita Malik, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Hard-won.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-won. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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