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hard-pressed

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[ hahrd-prest ]

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adjective

heavily burdened or oppressed, as by overwork or financial difficulties; harried; put-upon.
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First recorded in 1815–25

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Overburdened, put upon, as in With all these bills to pay we find ourselves hard pressed . [c. 1800]

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“They are hard-pressed to push back on the FCC for fear that the agency will punish them later on.”

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As a physician, I would be hard-pressed to argue for rolling back anything that saves lives.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find another show as concise in its education concerning the subtler signifiers of having “made it.”

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And Luxford told me she was "hard-pressed" to imagine the film's core audience, children under 10, being swayed by her politics.

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"This will make a difference to hard-pressed Canadians," he said.

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