Most of the soldiers were hardy young men. Hardy fans stuck with the team through good times and bad.
Only the hardiest pilgrims made the journey.
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So, the minute the leaves start to drop, take it as your sign to tap into the harvest and dress your backyard or porch with stylish pumpkin decor and seasonal window boxes filled with hardy flowers.—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025 With grief comes diminished critical thinking from even the hardiest of privacy diehards.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025 Florist mums, the kind wrapped in foil and sold in grocery stores, can’t survive the winter, but hardy garden mums can be planted in your garden.—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025 And because the team has gathered genetic material from coral that appear more resistant to heat and stress, their efforts are designed to reproduce hardier varieties.—John Otis, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hardy
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Etymology
Middle English hardi, from Anglo-French, from Old French *hardir to make hard, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English heard hard
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