hard up

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Recent Examples of hard up 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 The Habs are getting there, incrementally, and GM Kent Hughes might have to consider surrendering the No. 5 pick if one of the 10-12 clubs hard up against the cap offers an overpayment in terms of legit NHL players under contract. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for hard up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard up
Adjective
  • And another research team, using data from 2015 to 2022, observed in an article available in Energy Research and Social Science that poor income distribution correlates with social unrest when fossil fuel subsidies are removed.
    Aldo Flores-Quiroga, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The board meeting featured a slideshow that indicated pre-sales of NASCAR Heat 5 were very poor, 27% behind NASCAR Heat 4 (the previous game in the series) at the same time in development.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Three generations of the Kim family have created a politically repressed and economically impoverished state that is nonetheless a pivotal actor on the global stage.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Now with all these things vanished, along with the bookstores and repertory cinemas, the city seems impoverished and disfigured.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Hunter Biden plays the broke card in latest move to fight laptop scandal lawsuit.
    Fox News, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • But the Democrats still do not get it, which is why Trump should come to their aid by diverting leftover USAID funds to the Democrat Party which is broke and on the verge of becoming as relevant in U.S. politics as Guatemala, Serbia and Egypt.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025

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“Hard up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard%20up. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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