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“Ragtime” draws a portrait of America at a time of turmoil with broad dramatic strokes and emotional specificity, a high-wire act that might daunt the likes of Houdini—yet another character in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Nor do they daunt the current crop of entrepreneurs, who are mostly recycling old buildings, not putting up new ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

"Don’t let anything daunt you or take you away from that mission. This legislation is not going to do that. Keep becoming a citizen of this country."

From Fox News ● Jan. 9, 2022

“It was my internal daunt of going into this with somebody that I had this immense amount of respect for,” Q said in a call from Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

And She that walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now.

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

But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

But what he’s mostly done on hard courts is conquer what daunts him, by fighting the kinds of relentless battles that he relishes, as he did against a rising hard-court comer on Sunday.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2015

It daunts her to consider the situation’s basic math, the impossibility of matching her supplies to their numbers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011

‘I do not know which daunts me more: Fangorn, or the thought of the long road through Rohan on foot,’ said Gimli.

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

AI may not be sentient, but it gets daunted in the same way we do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Each of the five judges read all the submitted books, with Beard joking she "occasionally felt daunted as a new box of 30 or so gleaming volumes landed on my doorstep".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The words of former champion and current world number one Judd Trump show that even experienced players at the top of the game remain daunted at the iconic Sheffield venue.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

Paulson said older workers may be daunted by the potential costs, time and effort, as well as the potential stigma associated with being a whistleblower.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

"Not in public. If I begin to feel daunted I'll go off by myself. I'm like a cat that way."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

“Having a kid is daunting in about a hundred different ways, period — but it’s just getting more and more challenging financially,” Matt Schultz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

She is now considering private breast reduction surgery, but says the estimated £6,000 - £9,000 cost is daunting.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

That is especially daunting to cash-strapped North Korea, which lacks top-shelf hardware across its military.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“My work there has been halting, tentative and generally working around the fringes,” Chatfield wrote in a 1968 journal entry reflecting on the daunting task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The details of preparing for the suffrage parade were daunting, even the simplest ones.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling