daunt
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“Ragtime” draws a portrait of America at a time of turmoil with broad dramatic strokes and emotional specificity, a high-wire act that might daunt the likes of Houdini—yet another character in the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Nor do they daunt the current crop of entrepreneurs, who are mostly recycling old buildings, not putting up new ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Temperatures were in the 20s at game time but its didn't daunt a red-clad crowd of more than 29,000.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2022
Temperatures were in the 20s at game time but its didn’t daunt a sellout crowd.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
"Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
But what he’s mostly done on hard courts is conquer what daunts him, by fighting the kinds of relentless battles that he relishes, as he did against a rising hard-court comer on Sunday.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2015
It daunts her to consider the situation’s basic math, the impossibility of matching her supplies to their numbers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011
The thought of stealing it, in front of everyone, daunts me.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
But Cain, an interior decorator for 25 years, wasn’t daunted by the chaos that came with such an extensive project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
This World Cup has shown that neither player is daunted by the pressure of a major tournament too.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
But Brown wasn’t daunted by history, and he wasn’t about to pull his players to rest for the next game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Lewis wasn’t daunted by the country’s political and legal landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
She spent long hours out in the country by herself, spoke little, withdrew completely into herself and went about her tasks with a chill hopelessness that daunted me.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
But what looks good on spreadsheets ignores daunting constraints.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
All this should help him make a success of his daunting role flying close to the sun.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The novel’s length is daunting, but the writing is swift and eventful, often expressed in coursing run-on sentences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At Air India, however, Gebremariam faces a daunting task.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Howard’s inclination was to scratch him, but the potential consequences were daunting.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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