gauntlet
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That framework, though, isn’t treated like some act-structured gauntlet in Ford’s telling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It’s a gauntlet made thornier whenever Murashige, who believes in mercy over violence, engages with Kanbei, chained in a dungeon but with a dangerous mind nonetheless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
This road past their fields, increasingly overlooked by settler outposts, has become a gauntlet for farmers here, to be run at speed in vehicles without stopping or getting out.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Certified financial planner Veronica Taylor, who works for the women-centered firm Ellevest in New York, has helped many clients through this gauntlet, and is going through it herself.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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