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U.S. sanctions generally aim to cut off targets from the U.S. financial system, turning them into economic pariahs and threatening companies that dare to trade with them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“So you can agonize over that. I wouldn’t dare say which one.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"Don't you dare think the Australian fruits and ours are the same. Ignorance is pathetic," said one social media comment.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

To dare is to do and this kit is nothing if not daring.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

I sit as close to the fire as I dare.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

One former army officer, who defected to the opposition three years ago, told the BBC she only dares leave the room she rents in Mae Sot twice a month.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Dare Market app allows people to challenge one another to complete dares for prizes or money, but discourages users from breaking any laws, Rose-Perfito said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

A report last week by Yale University contains a surprising dose of self-examination that dares to agree with what many of its critics have been saying for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

So, Emily dares to eat a Big Arch—the whole thing—and the hosts talk about how this kind of PR cannot be bought.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026

Vivi has brought Oak as close as she dares.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"No one had ever dared do that," said political scientist Luis Salamanca, who noted that up until recently, such statements would have invited harsh political repression.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Authorities later covered the foundation of the 2019 statue with a plastic sheet, the resident said, adding: "No one has dared to complain."

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

There’s been something of a love-hate relationship between viewers and the show, which has sometimes dared its audience to keep watching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Thus, he dared to break with long-held dogma that the economy would overheat and spark runaway inflation if allowed to grow at a sustained rate of much above 2.5% per year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It’s just...One time we were down here, and Charlotte said she could hack anyone on the planet. Anyone. So we dared her to hack the prime minister.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand’s reach, yet I durst not handle it.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

I had no open space before me; therefore I durst not let him go.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

Tököly's servant durst not go to sleep on the off-chance of awaking at dawn in order to arouse his master, and so the sky had scarcely begun to grow grey when he routed him up.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai

Yffim Beg durst not say to Hassan Pasha that he also had bad sight; he might just as well have pronounced his own death sentence at once.

From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai

It was too dark for him to see his watch, and he durst not strike a light.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

By far, the most daring approach has been Jake Braun’s.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

The daring leap to Prespa meant having to start from scratch, find housing in the village of Agios Germanos and a means of earning a living.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It always finds a way to reinvent itself — to become more daring, to fuse and bastardize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

"They're daring me to pull it out / I'll probably keep it for a lifetime."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Burr embodied Hamilton’s daring and energy run amok in a political culture still groping for its stable shape.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis