formidable
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And while it’s disappointing that such a formidable industry figure could bungle a major career pivot, at least she’ll never have to go back to parking cars.
From Salon
Even Hurricanes quarterback Carson Beck could barely believe his team had pulled off an against-the-odds victory against such a formidable opponent.
Beijing has amassed such a formidable arsenal of missiles that concentrating combat planes in one or two well-known locations almost anywhere in the region would put them in danger of being wiped out.
Identifying materials that can survive such extreme conditions remains a formidable task, and they can’t be fully tested without the plasma that future reactors aim to produce.
Recognizing this, Masson wrote in 1941, in “Painting is a Wager”: “Towards 1930, five years after the foundation of surrealism, a formidable disaster appeared in its midst: the demagogy of the irrational.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
