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- verb Present participle of
tough .
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Examples
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I briefly considered toughing it out, but decided to make an appointment with our regular doctor, an internist.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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I briefly considered toughing it out, but decided to make an appointment with our regular doctor, an internist.
National Health Insurance Needed, Reason #247,342,589: desmoinesdem 2009
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First, choose an image or vision -- beyond cancer -- that you want to walk toward as you wrestle with the initial (terrifying) uncertainty of the disease and later when the uncertainty contracts some and you are toughing it out through treatment.
Nancy F. Koehn: The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two Nancy F. Koehn 2010
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But unlike some of the other buyers of Equity Office buildings, Shorenstein has been toughing it out.
Flipping to Happy Ending Maura Webber Sadovi 2011
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First, choose an image or vision -- beyond cancer -- that you want to walk toward as you wrestle with the initial (terrifying) uncertainty of the disease and later when the uncertainty contracts some and you are toughing it out through treatment.
Nancy F. Koehn: The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two Nancy F. Koehn 2010
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Though more often than not, whatever requires such round-the-clock coverage is usually devastating to someone, somewhere, I get a strange adrenaline rush like I'm right there with the victims, toughing out the blizzard, mass transit strike or terrorist attack.
Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011
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Though more often than not, whatever requires such round-the-clock coverage is usually devastating to someone, somewhere, I get a strange adrenaline rush like I'm right there with the victims, toughing out the blizzard, mass transit strike or terrorist attack.
Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011
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Though more often than not, whatever requires such round-the-clock coverage is usually devastating to someone, somewhere, I get a strange adrenaline rush like I'm right there with the victims, toughing out the blizzard, mass transit strike or terrorist attack.
Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011
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Though more often than not, whatever requires such round-the-clock coverage is usually devastating to someone, somewhere, I get a strange adrenaline rush like I'm right there with the victims, toughing out the blizzard, mass transit strike or terrorist attack.
Emily Farris: Hurricane Coffee: How a Strainer and a Paper Towel Made Me Feel Connected to Irene Victims Emily Farris 2011
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First, choose an image or vision -- beyond cancer -- that you want to walk toward as you wrestle with the initial (terrifying) uncertainty of the disease and later when the uncertainty contracts some and you are toughing it out through treatment.
Nancy F. Koehn: The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two Nancy F. Koehn 2010
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