hardcase

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Recent Examples of hardcase Be prepared with a five-piece luggage set that includes a large and medium suitcase, a hardcase carry-on, an extended duffel bag and a toiletry bag. Christopher Murray, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024 Its hardcase shells are made with aerospace-grade, water-resistant polycarbonate materials. Jean Chen Smith, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hardcase
Adjective
  • In his fourth feature, director Hsiao Ya-Chuan follows the unsentimental education of a motherless 11-year-old boy, Liao Jie (Bai Run-yin), raised in poverty by his kindly father, Liao Tai-lai (Liu Kuan-Ting), a waiter at a busy banqueting hall.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Students and parents need to be unsentimental about weighing risks and rewards, and come up with a gameplan that takes costs and future earnings into account.
    Taylor Tepper, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • But the sentiments are the razors in the apples: hard-bitten, painful, wise from disappointment, and braced for the next crisis.
    SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Alaska has devolved into a colony of big oil, and its politics have become so closed, hard-bitten, and strident.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2015
Adjective
  • In a smaller pot of water over high heat, boil eggs, covered, until just hard-boiled, 7 minutes, then run under cold water.
    Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
  • For lunch or dinner, top a salad with scrambled or hard-boiled eggs.
    Amanda MacMillan, Health, 1 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • The comment quickly spread like wildfire online, causing much confusion about if his comment was sarcastic or a dig at the country crooner.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 22 Nov. 2024
  • While the main cast all reprised their roles, Rapp’s Leighton Murray, the ultra-wealthy, sarcastic sorority girl whose journey of self-discovery was central to the first two seasons, is bidding her farewell.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Somehow both brothers end up at the test and, in an ironic twist, Tomás gets the job.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But the term is also often used as an ironic self-descriptor.
    Evelyn Bauer, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The season 2 finale jumped ahead in time to reveal the jaded journalist’s book (called, natch, Interview With the Vampire) was a commercial success but critically panned … but Daniel no longer cared.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Law stars as a jaded FBI agent alongside Sheridan as an eager young police detective, who are on the tail of the gang, and Mathews, played by Hoult.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Crucially, they are grounded in real-world experiences, from a recent exchange with worldly-wise restaurant waitresses in Bordeaux exemplifying trust and collaboration, to the coaching of top CEOs over the past 20 years.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Heather Alicia Simms and Vanessa Bell Calloway are both sharp, witty, and poignant without sentimentality as the play’s two matriarchal figures, the formidable Missy Judson and Idella Landy, the wry, worldly-wise housekeeper who essentially raised Charlie.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 June 2024

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“Hardcase.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hardcase. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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