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The phrase "almost hard to read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe text or material that is difficult to read, but not entirely so, suggesting a level of challenge without being completely illegible.
Example: "The handwriting was almost hard to read, but I managed to decipher the main points."
Alternatives: "somewhat difficult to read" or "nearly unreadable".
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Namely how big these companies in fact are: Facebook has nearly 1.4 billion daily active users, Google is the key path to information for much of the world, Amazon wants to take over how you purchase everything, Microsoft is cementing its SaaS products in homes and offices around the globe, and Apple makes so much money that its earnings reports are almost hard to read.
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The sentence is hard to read and seems to run off track; deleting the first "almost" would be one possible fix.
It's hard to read the stone-faced rapper's expression, but some might say he almost looks wistful.
Hard to read.
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