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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

"Don’t let anything daunt you or take you away from that mission. This legislation is not going to do that. Keep becoming a citizen of this country."

From Fox News ● Jan. 9, 2022

Neither the science nor statistics of the new vaccine daunt them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021

Simon Block’s bucking bronco of an adaptation could daunt any theater company, but ETC Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, who directs this production, should be well-equipped to wrangle the juxtaposition of the humorous with the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019

And She that walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now.

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

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

If you are not daunted by the amount of work needed to maintain grounds of this size, it is a mini slice of paradise on a sunny day.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Lewis wasn’t daunted by the country’s political and legal landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

SO HE WAS, three days later, thinner, paler, and not a whit daunted by his two months in a concrete cell.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“Having a kid is daunting in about a hundred different ways, period — but it’s just getting more and more challenging financially,” Matt Schultz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It is a daunting challenge for her, as Nike’s revenue in China and Taiwan is down nearly 30% from its peak five years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She is now considering private breast reduction surgery, but says the estimated £6,000 - £9,000 cost is daunting.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He’s fit right in, making a now Shohei Ohtani-less projected postseason rotation still the most daunting the sport has seen in decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Suddenly Rigor Mortis Bend doesn’t seem so daunting.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen