challenge
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He’d recently been nervous about starting a new activity, but he’d persevered, and so I said to him, “I’m proud of how well you dealt with that challenge.”
Shuja Nawaz, founder director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, said Pakistan had taken on a "challenging task" in trying to get Washington and Tehran to agree to talks.
From Barron's
"You just need to back off the throttle or turn down the battery and you charge the thing. So no more challenge in the high speed."
From BBC
In 2014, King faced his own health challenge when he suffered a brain aneurysm while separated from his wife and living alone.
From BBC
Spanish media warned of the challenges he would face, particularly managing a dressing room full of some of football's biggest personalities.
From BBC
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