Words similar to hard-won

Example sentences for: hard-won

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Where is all that hard-won cynicism that now marks the American character?
Never mind that a wily Internet jackal, in the form of Matt Drudge, leapt out of the jungle of cyberspace and ran off with a juicy chunk of Spikey's hard-won meal.
An expert predicts that the research could relegate today's Native Americans to "just another Ellis Island group" and threaten their hard-won legal rights.
This is freedom hard-won, the fruit of wars and sacrifice and struggle.
But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.