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case-hardened

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verb

past tense of case-harden

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for case-hardened
Adjective
  • Hunted by the ruthless crime boss that Don worked for and learned all the boss’s sinister secrets — Perlman plays him — Don has a reason to seek redemption.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Witness Alex Hales’ ruthless removal.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1918, Bolshevik secret police forced Anastasia Romanov and her imperial family into a damp basement to face a merciless firing squad.
    Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The lengthy, merciless caption is basically the rock equivalent of Miranda Priestly’s cerulean sweater takedown.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • No expensive meter running that is racking up hefty bills and stony fees.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • But Bana is not as believable when asked to drop his stony demeanor and display vulnerability, a shortcoming that hampers his arc in the back half of the season.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • Eventually, that magma cooled, crystalized, and solidified creating these rare Australian carbonatites.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These carbon-rich rocks simply crystallized out of the ocean, conjured by some of the most extreme ocean chemistry in Earth history.
    Peter Brannen August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The only issue is his mother Laura (Wright), a woman who has lost a child once before and is petrified of a repeat.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Case-hardened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/case-hardened. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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