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If you take a fresh tomato, it will be firm - kind of hard, but it doesn't take much force to give up.

If you freeze the tomato, it will be hard.

If you wait for a few days, it will become soft.

Another example is a handshake. A soft handshake is what you shouldn't do (like handshaking a fish), a hard handshake you shouldn't do either (because it will hurt the other person), the best handshake is a firm (or solid) handshake.



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