: a tough or hardened person
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Doom-speak can be an effective rhetorical tactic, for the same reason it is often said that hard cases make bad law.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
The firearm must be in a hard case that can be locked and completely secured from being accessed.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
Which is a hard case to make in public without disclosing your mistrust of those voters and your preference for having the decisions of a national electorate subordinated to the decisions of local juries in deep-blue cities.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
Politics and law and media are some of the worst avenues for talking about hard cases.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Always pack your toothbrush inside of a hard case in order to protect the bristles on your brush head.
—Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
The hard case shell is also waterproof, shockproof, and resistant to scratches.
—L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
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Yet a disaster that happens so similarly to so many seems a hard case for too much moralizing, since at its heart is the one thing that always escapes moralizing, and that is our own mortality.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Doom-speak can be an effective rhetorical tactic, for the same reason it is often said that hard cases make bad law.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
The firearm must be in a hard case that can be locked and completely secured from being accessed.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
Which is a hard case to make in public without disclosing your mistrust of those voters and your preference for having the decisions of a national electorate subordinated to the decisions of local juries in deep-blue cities.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
Politics and law and media are some of the worst avenues for talking about hard cases.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023
Still, punk, born specifically in reaction to rock’s decadent self-regard, presents a uniquely hard case.
—Brett Martin, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Always pack your toothbrush inside of a hard case in order to protect the bristles on your brush head.
—Leslie Hsu Oh, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2023
The hard case shell is also waterproof, shockproof, and resistant to scratches.
—L. Daniela Alvarez, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2023
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