Hard
Uphill
Uphill adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Usage example: an uphill battle to eradicate poverty in an area of the state that has never known anything else
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Tempting Fate: It's hard not to cringe at Five destroying his predecessor's scarf, as if Peter Davison didn't have enough of an uphill battle to get the fans to accept him in the role.
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What is not stated is that, the power of culture notwithstanding, it would still be a long, hard, and impossibly uphill battle of attrition against possibly billions of ships.
Source: Inferred Holocaust - The doctor works hard to solve the supers' psychological issues, though it's still an uphill battle.
Source: Web Video / Super Therapy!
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Uphill and Hard. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard/uphill
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