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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hard timesnoun

    a time of difficulty

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  1. Hard Times

    Hard Times is a song written by James Taylor. It first appeared on his 1981 album Dad Loves His Work. It was also released as a single, as the follow up to the Top-20 hit "Her Town Too." It did not perform as well as its predecessor, reaching #72 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #23 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The single's b-side, "Summer's Here," performed similarly on the Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at #25.

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  1. Hard Times

    Hard Times - For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.

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    Read the full text of the Hard Times poem by Rabindranath Tagore on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hard times in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hard times in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of hard times in a Sentence

  1. Takuya Takahashi:

    We didn't get much clues on future U.S. rate hikes from the jobs report, so investors are having hard times deciding their positions, japanese companies' earnings reports are not helping sentiment, either, so the market may stay sluggish for a while.

  2. Ursula K. Le Guin:

    Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality.

  3. Tony Finau:

    If you want to be good at anything, you’re going to go through some really hard times. When you go through those, it’s OK to be nice, it’s OK to be kind, i never wanted to be one where golf was going to kill me. I’ve seen it happen to too many people where they let the game literally drive them crazy.

  4. Erik Davis:

    She plays a former MMA fighter who’s fallen on hard times, but when the son that she had given up returns into her life, it inspires her to fight for one last chance at redemption.

  5. Zac Brown:

    This is really strange circumstances because normally under pressure entertainment and music always survives. People want to feel good. They wan na come out and see music and we wan na be able to be there as a beacon to help remind them that everything is going to be OK during hard times, but this has been crippling because people can't gather together.


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