challenging
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Now the company’s plans to emerge from chapter 11 bankruptcy by early summer have gotten more challenging.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Chatterjee wrote that Corning stock’s current valuation “creates a challenging execution hurdle relative to the earnings expectation now being embedded by the buyside to justify such a lofty premium.”
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
Over this decade’s bouts of inflation, big food companies have sometimes relied on price increase to push sales figures higher amid headwinds challenging item volumes.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
“With Saul and even with ‘Nobody,’ slipping into that guy’s skin is a little challenging.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Most challenging of all was the fact that there was not one person who had ever been involved in an underwater excavation in South Korea.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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