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"hardship" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often adversity (9 letters).
Definitions
something hard to endure
Word origin
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.
Used in a sentence
“He has survived periods of financial hardship before.”
“If train services of this kind were to be cut off, without any provision of alternative services, there would, of course, be hardship in some cases.”
“The TUCC's role was to assess what (if any) hardship a BR closure proposal would cause, and to make recommendations to ministers who would have the final say.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Tough ordeal”8 letters
02“Serious difficulty”8 letters
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