challenge
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She rejected Washington's attempts to deny or challenge the North's status as a nuclear power, saying it "carries no legal force".
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
"My challenge to them was, 'it's 21-10 boys and we couldn't play worse so let's go score one try and see it from then'. As it happened, we scored one try and then game on."
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
In rising from political obscurity to challenge longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins, Platner has left Maine voters with two disparate impressions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
City Controller Kenneth Mejia easily fended off a challenge from real estate executive Zach Sokoloff, whose campaign was bolstered by $7.5 million in outside spending by his mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
But the fact that I was attending high school posed quite a challenge for my mother, since suddenly my classmates were all teenagers.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 11-20
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