hard-hitting
adjective
hard-hit·ting
ˈhärd-ˈhi-tiŋ 
: strikingly effective in force or result
a hard-hitting exposé
plain hard-hitting English
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Jerry Jones may make more trades and signings — like agreeing on a two-year deal with Leighton Vander Esch after making nice with hard-hitting Donovan Wilson — that get them over a hump that’s played like Mount Everest.
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Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
They are accompanied by hard-hitting dramas and semi-nonfiction films, and, as usual, the prize in several leading Oscars categories could be anyone's game.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
Leading an all-female team of performers including the DJ in keeping with the evening’s theme, the trilingual artist performed a hard-hitting set of songs with lyrics mixing Korean, English and Japanese.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
The high-tech recon vehicles are a Stryker brigade’s cavalry—its fast-moving, far-seeing, hard-hitting scouts.
—David Axe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
The Philadelphia Flyers made two trades, sending Patrick Brown to Ottawa and hard-hitting winger Zack MacEwen to Los Angeles for Brendan Lemieux and a 2024 fifth-round pick.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A clever turn of phrase, a great pitch for a feature article or a hard-hitting investigation — these were things that made Michael Collier’s face break out in a big grin in a newsroom.
—Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2023
There is an exceptional team of journalists here with a burning passion for hard-hitting visual storytelling.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2023
Orlov, issued No. 81, rode on the right side of a No. 3 defense pairing with Derek Forbort, bumping hard-hitting Connor Clifton out of the job for the night.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
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Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2023
They are accompanied by hard-hitting dramas and semi-nonfiction films, and, as usual, the prize in several leading Oscars categories could be anyone's game.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
Leading an all-female team of performers including the DJ in keeping with the evening’s theme, the trilingual artist performed a hard-hitting set of songs with lyrics mixing Korean, English and Japanese.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2023
The high-tech recon vehicles are a Stryker brigade’s cavalry—its fast-moving, far-seeing, hard-hitting scouts.
—David Axe, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
The Philadelphia Flyers made two trades, sending Patrick Brown to Ottawa and hard-hitting winger Zack MacEwen to Los Angeles for Brendan Lemieux and a 2024 fifth-round pick.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A clever turn of phrase, a great pitch for a feature article or a hard-hitting investigation — these were things that made Michael Collier’s face break out in a big grin in a newsroom.
—Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2023
There is an exceptional team of journalists here with a burning passion for hard-hitting visual storytelling.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2023
Orlov, issued No. 81, rode on the right side of a No. 3 defense pairing with Derek Forbort, bumping hard-hitting Connor Clifton out of the job for the night.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
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