CASE-HARDEN Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

case-harden

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Definition of case-harden

as in to temper

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Miranda Priestly, the no-nonsense visionary, pushes for excellence and learns to temper her high standards with a more collaborative outlook.

— Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Iraq ultimately didn’t score a goal against Senegal but that did not temper the passion shown by the country’s fans.

— Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 26 June 2026

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Over the next five years, real value will come from applying quantum principles, such as annealing and probabilistic optimization, to supply chains, finance and logistics before fault-tolerant quantum arrives.

— Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
The system will form the backbone of a long-term partnership between FAU and D-Wave, which provides both annealing and gate-model quantum computing platforms.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026

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Whitehead, meanwhile, crystalizes his sense of what makes the city run, where Carney fits in, and how the straight and crooked worlds are entwined in one strange ecosystem with laws that only the lawless can enforce.

— David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
According to interviews with Hooper, the concept for the film crystallized for him after a Christmastime visit to a Montgomery Ward department store.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026

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The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 May 2026
Johansson plays her with a tough edge to match her Queens accent, but Hester is clearly petrified by this perfect storm of ugly events.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026

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