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The phrase "are worst hit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the groups or areas that have been most severely affected by a negative event or situation.
Example: "In the recent storm, coastal communities are worst hit, suffering extensive damage and flooding."
Alternatives: "are most affected" or "have been hardest hit."
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The ill-educated and unskilled are worst hit, but even they have more possessions these days.
Too often women and girls are worst hit by poverty and left to carry its burdens.
Over a third of its young adult population, the most productive and the most sexually active, are worst hit.
Publishers with a male, technophile audience are worst hit, says Sean Blanchfield of PageFair, an Irish startup that helps publishers quantify and manage ad-blocking.
Apart from the huge and efficient VW, the mass-market carmakers are worst hit: premium brands such as BMW and Land Rover are enjoying strong export demand from emerging markets.
Oxfam said companies like Glencore were "profiting from the misery and suffering of poor people who are worst hit by high and volatile food prices", adding: "If we are going to fix the ailing food system then traders must be part of the cure".
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Central London will be worst hit.
Northern parts of the UK were worst hit.
Strangely, the isolated buildings seemed to have been worst hit.
England's 10 ambulance services were worst hit.
The holiday home market has been worst hit.
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