hard-hitting vs potent

hard-hitting

adj
  • Aggressively vigorous or forceful 

potent

adj
  • Very powerful or effective. 

  • Able to procreate. 

  • Having a sharp or offensive taste. 

  • Possessing strength. 

  • Powerfully effective. 

noun
  • A heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white T shapes. 

How often have the words hard-hitting and potent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )