Tough in sentence

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And even worse, plastic is incredibly tough and durable and researchers estimate that it can take anywhere from 500 to 5,000 years to fully break down.

My bacteria, however, have figured out how to do this digestion process to big, tough, durable PET plastic.

Now, my bacteria have a special enzyme called a lipase that binds to big, tough, durable PET plastic and helps break it into small chunks of sugar that my bacteria can then use for energy.

So basically, PET plastic goes from being a big, tough, long-lasting pollutant to a tasty meal for my bacteria.

We do this because sunlight acts a bit like tenderizer on a steak, turning the big, tough, durable bonds in PET plastic a bit softer and a bit easier for my bacteria to chew on.

An octopus on a coral reef has a tough job in front it to go to so many places, remember and find its den.

That's a tough one.

This is a really tough test for her in this very strange environment.

This is a really tough test.

It's because lipids are so tough, they can get preserved in sediment and last the hundreds of millions of years necessary, and be extracted and tell us who was there.

Take time to tell your partner that the support they gave you really made it possible for you to get through a tough time.

And you know, my mother taught us ... she was tough on us, and she said, "You know, Leah," she gave us all this plaque, "to be a good woman, you have to first look like a girl."

Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.

Leatherback and softshell turtles have shells without the ring of bone around the edge of the carapace or the tough scutes covering it, making it easier for them to squeeze into tight spaces.

He was just a young man, about my age, asking me some really tough questions.

The men were all pretty tough.

After many years of starts and stops on this project, and making that tough decision, they finally decided to greenlight the movie.

You know, this is some tough stuff.

I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting.

So I had to ask myself a tough question: am I man enough to just shut the hell up and listen?

She stopped writing and closed all of her social media accounts, which is, you know, a tough thing to do when you're a journalist.

When times are tough, governments and central banks may print money, increase spending, and lower central bank interest rates.

And it's gotten me out of so many tough positions like, "When's the last flight out of Chicago?"

Now, the psychological balancing of those experiences is incredibly tough, and in fact those drone pilots have higher rates of PTSD than many of the units physically in Iraq.

This is a really tough test for her in this very strange environment, so I'm going to hand it over now to Mark.

And this is a tough test.

And listen, I know, transforming a big city like Detroit to one that is prosperous, one that's functional, one that's healthy, one that's inclusive, one that provides opportunities for all, I know it's tough, I know it's challenging, I know it's hard.

When he encountered a tough problem, he made a circuit of a trail, the sandwalk that he'd built behind his house.

Both nails and claws are made of keratin— a tough, fibrous protein also found in horns, scales, hooves and hair.

You know, I read Peter's book to prepare, I tried to get into his mindset, and I have to admit, it was tough, I'm not becoming a vegan, my company wasn't going that way.

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