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There’s more power upstairs than most American buyers will dare sample.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

"Seeing the condition of the recently burned lands... we didn't dare to gamble and assume he'll survive."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I dare to say La Opinión was vital; it was like medicine for the spirit,” she said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

“They have to repress themselves. So they want others to be repressed as well. ‘How dare you live outside of this box and have freedom of choice and a comfortable, fun, beautiful life?”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Who would dare set foot on it, and venture into that haunted place?

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

The Thai government has called her an "inspiration to anyone who dares to dream big".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Its performance history is so good that it dares you to try doing any better.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Sometimes his friends would even dare him to tell a joke about buffalo wings, the kind of dares that can only be conceived by years of friendship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

A report last week by Yale University contains a surprising dose of self-examination that dares to agree with what many of its critics have been saying for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Behind him, Werner raises the aerial as high as he dares and clamps on the headphones and switches on the transceiver.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

James Wilson foresaw a country more egalitarian and more democratic than his contemporaries dared imagine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

And yet, Anderson’s “Resident Evil” has always been the butt of the joke, brushed off largely because his movies dared to be different when people wanted more of the same.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Buoyed by a youthful sense of invincibility, they dared one another to leap, waiting for another to move, like emperor penguin chicks before a first arctic plunge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"It is truly my dearest wish that this opens the way for other women who might not have dared until now," the 59-year-old, who lives in Anglet in southwestern France, said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The baboons drifted past below, and sniffed as closely as they dared to the fire.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand’s reach, yet I durst not handle it.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Besides, the Spaniards flying from one place to another every day, and often changing woods, were jealous even of each other, so as the father durst scarce trust his own son.”

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

It was too dark for him to see his watch, and he durst not strike a light.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

To encourage a woollen manufacture in America, it was recommended to the colonists to abstain from eating the flesh of lambs, and not a butcher durst afterwards expose lamb for sale.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

All Sam's bright hopes were dashed at once; he durst ask no further.

From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe

A police source said that Nunez had raised the alarm because "there is a risk. And it discourages the less daring from taking part."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The show that began as edgy and daring has become a sort of collective American comfort food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

When Breed spoke to The Times in February, while preparing for the daring journey, she admitted that she was nervous about jellyfish and wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Engineers cut the masts free during a daring project, initially estimated to cost £9.5m.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Edmond Dantès’s daring break from an island prison is considered one of the greatest escapes in all of literature to this very day.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood