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Example sentences for: hard-hitting

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The Boston Globe has published a hard-hitting four part series on Harvard University.
It specified both carrots and hard-hitting sticks- among them, certifying Pakistan as uncooperative on terrorism.
Parents are abandoning the PTA in droves for groups that are more local and hard-hitting, says a report . The PTA's reformist mandate--it pioneered libraries, hot lunches, and kindergartens--has degenerated into mere boosterism.
My only regret is that the article wasn't even more hard-hitting.
I did see Monica on Larry King , and the show left me with one burning question that hard-hitting Larry failed to ask: If you're a borderline nobody who's been given an hour of nationwide airtime with the King of Talk, what in hell is so important that you have to leave 20 minutes early?