formidable
Example Sentences
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A proper Englishwoman whose husband, Arthur, served in Burma, she has been formidable all her life, with an unshakeable faith in God and the empire.
The deals show that OpenAI’s fundraising machine remains formidable even as questions about how it will pay for expansion plans remain largely unanswered.
You hesitate for an instant, torn between the invitingly warm lower level and the formidable set of stairs leading upward.
SpaceX told employees it is preparing for a potential public offering next year, confirming a potential listing for a company that has built formidable rocket and satellite businesses since Elon Musk founded it in 2002.
Dubbed Operation Golden Dynamite, the dangerous journey was cold, wet and long - but the "formidable" Machado didn't complain once, said Bryan Stern, a US special forces veteran and founder of the Grey Bull Rescue Foundation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.