gauntlet
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In the span of two weeks, the Brewers have faced Tarik Skubal, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell and Rasmussen, a terrifying gauntlet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
And from there, the Trojans would coast the rest of the way to a clean nonconference sheet, with the start of a Big Ten gauntlet finally on tap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
“So Many Tears” throws down a gloomy gauntlet with its opening line: “Back in elementary, I thrived on misery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This road past their fields, increasingly overlooked by settler outposts, has become a gauntlet for farmers here, to be run at speed in vehicles without stopping or getting out.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The knight wore silver armor, his greaves and gauntlet inlaid with niello to suggest flowing fronds of seaweed.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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