hard up

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Recent Examples of hard up They’ve been hit particularly hard up front on offense and need youth. Brad Biggs, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024 Cleveland Browns Stadium, hard up against the Science Center lawn, was plunged into darkness. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024 Once the timing of the case pushed hard up against a national election in which Trump was likely to run, forbearance would have been the proper and public-spirited course. Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024 Considering the Heat’s position hard up against the second apron of the punitive luxury tax, 10–day contracts stand as a means to pay only when needed, 10 days at a time, at the veteran-minimum, scale. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hard up
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Adjective
  • Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns each added 23 points and OG Anunoby bounced back from two poor performances by scoring 20 for the Knicks, who can win the series Wednesday night at Boston.
    Brian Mahoney, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2025
  • Boston built big second-half leads on New York in both Games 1 and 2 at home, but squandered them due to uncharacteristically poor 3-point shooting.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Infectious disease experts note that the vitamin is most useful in impoverished countries where children are significantly malnourished.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Here's one: In 1 of every 4 large American cities, a family can earn six figures and still feel broke.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 6 May 2025
  • But Michaels does not think, as some comedians claim, that woke broke comedy.
    Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025

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“Hard up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20up. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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