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hard-fought
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Princeton's WordNet
hard-foughtadjective
requiring great effort
"a hard-fought primary"
GCIDE
hard-foughtadjective
Vigorously contested by both opponents; -- of contests; as, a hard-fought battle; a hard-fought primary election.
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hard-fought
Hard-fought typically refers to something that is achieved or earned only after a great deal of effort, struggle or conflict. It is often used to describe hard-won victories in sports, war, politics, or any other competitive situations where a significant amount of effort, determination and resilience is required.
Webster Dictionary
Hard-fought
contested; as, a hard-fought battle
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
hard-fought
Vigorously contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hard-fought in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hard-fought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of hard-fought in a Sentence
There's no question that ultimately we need to establish a single-payer system, but there has to be a role for those hard, hard-fought-for, high-quality plans that we've negotiated, you can't ask the American worker, who sacrificed wages and everything, to simply say: 'Okay, I'll accept this plan here,'.
These settlements with these defendants have been hard fought, and it is finally bringing closure in one of the last vestiges of this litigation.
Those two games were extremely hard-fought, close games in both circumstances, and I would expect the same in this game, i don’t know that there’s anything that I can really take from that (2011) experience that’s going to have any effect or impact on this one.
Playing against that team, they’ve been playing really well. We knew it would be a hard-fought battle, it was a fun game. I think everybody was engaged. Everybody on the bench was lively.
There's no getting around that this was an incredibly close and hard-fought race. After what's been a long campaign season, it's time to come together and heal our community.
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