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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bit of a bombshell, Vi distracts Betty's hard-won suitor Hugh, touching off a set of sibling sparring.
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But this lack of censorship, self or otherwise, should be celebrated for the hard-won battle that it is.
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For me this was a hard-won lesson, based on my own failings in this direction.
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I am proud of the invitation and the hard-won respect that underlies it.
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It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and then swoops down to catch it - often in mid-air.
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It involves wondering how to use hard-won resources to achieve something meaningful.
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Their hard-won brand equity was swept away by the power of the marketplace transactions.
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This strong attachment to a hard-won freedom can neither be denigrated, nor eradicated from consciousness.