challenging
Example Sentences
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"These were really quite difficult, challenging conditions to have to be working in and to try and gather evidence," the superintendent explains.
From BBC
But in the film itself, she also encounters challenging situations.
From BBC
Aimee won at her own tribunal, after challenging the council's decision to place her son in a mainstream school, but said the experience was "incredibly hard".
From BBC
Interviews with over a dozen students who had taken its classes were overwhelmingly positive; they described SCiLL’s offerings as “freeing,” “eye-opening,” “challenging” and “stimulating.”
"It's been a challenging couple of weeks here in Bahrain, and today's limited running wasn't the way we wanted to finish the second test," said Stroll.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.