"hard-hitting" meaning in English

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      "form": "harder-hitting",
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      "form": "most hard-hitting",
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      "form": "hardest-hitting",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:",
          "text": "A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun:",
          "text": "I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:",
          "text": "The hardest-hitting message of the weekend comes not from Huff but from guest speaker Charlotte Gambill, a UK-based traveling preacher who frequently speaks at women’s gatherings.",
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        "Aggressively vigorous or forceful."
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      "id": "en-hard-hitting-en-adj-VXxRlNR7",
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          "vigorous",
          "vigorous"
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        [
          "forceful",
          "forceful"
        ]
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "hard-hitting",
          "word": "hardtslående"
        }
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    }
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  "word": "hard-hitting"
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        "comparative"
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    {
      "form": "most hard-hitting",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 18, Nate Crowley, “Ring Of Pain is a solid card crawler featuring the grimmest owl in games”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun:",
          "text": "I found a Chugging Mask in the demo, which increased my health stat every time I drank a healing potion on full health, and then focused on piling on armour so I could wade through smaller encounters unscathed, and chug my way into tankhood so I could survive harder-hitting foes.",
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        {
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        "Aggressively vigorous or forceful."
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          "forceful",
          "forceful"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "hard-hitting",
      "word": "hardtslående"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard-hitting"
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