Most of the soldiers were hardy young men. Hardy fans stuck with the team through good times and bad.
Only the hardiest pilgrims made the journey.
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To restore the balance, residents, farmers and the local school joined forces to bring back a hardy native breed: the Old Norwegian Sheep.—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 City’s video tribute was a tear-jerker, and less hardy characters than De Bruyne — nicknamed ‘the tumble dryer’ due to his dry (and blunt) approach — would surely have cracked and let the tears roll.—Sam Lee, New York Times, 21 May 2025 Plants have larger foliage and bigger blooms than their tropical counterparts and are winter hardy.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 May 2025 Above the tidal zone begins a maquis of mastic, myrtle, helichrysum, arbutus, and other fragrant, hardy plants, which in the higher, more remote parts of the island give way to groves of ilex, eucalyptus, and stone pine.—Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hardy
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Etymology
Middle English hardi, from Anglo-French, from Old French *hardir to make hard, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English heard hard
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