noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
play
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Well, we can play hardball , too.
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This is playing hardball , but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings.
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PITTSBURGHThe Steelers and Pirates found out voters can play hardball , too.
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I began to understand the style of working in D. C. It was a place where people played political hardball .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I began to understand the style of working in D. C. It was a place where people played political hardball .
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It was the same nasty hardball every workman knew to expect.
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This is playing hardball , but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings.
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Well, we can play hardball , too.