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daunting







ADJECTIVE
frightening
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Pawlikowski has said that he keeps returning to the past in his films because addressing our modern ills directly would be too daunting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

It gathers against a daunting backdrop of external risks, continuing to monitor oil market developments, bond yield volatility and the risk of an AI investment pullback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Haugen and Horwitz battled similarly daunting foes, and the rot they uncovered was just as systemic and frightening as the reporting.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“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

Who are these nutcases who would volunteer for an artificially daunting situation in order to entertain millions of strangers with their half-assed efforts to survive?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich


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