hard hit

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1. In severe difficulties; greatly affected by a problem.

   “As typical of a flu season, some areas are being harder hit than other areas,” said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.

   2014 January 17, Miriam Falco, “Some states hit harder by flu this year”, in CNN

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   East Coast ports, with old-established stockfishmongers and “stockfish rows”, hard hit by the collapse of business with Bergen, were naturally foremost in developing the possibilities of Iceland.

   1933, Eileen Power, M[ichael] M. Postan, editors, Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN

   In fact, accommodation and food services, which has been hardest hit by the Great Resignation, has also created one out of every three net new jobs in 2021. Does that make any sense? Only if you think about this as a job-switching revolution.

   2021 December 8, Derek Thompson, “Three Myths of the Great Resignation”, in The Atlantic