formidable
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She would go on to govern for 15 years, turning the TMC into India's most successful regional party and herself into one of the country's most formidable opposition politicians.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Laurie Metcalf, confirming her standing as the First Lady of the American Theater, won for her portrayal of Linda Loman, a more formidable than usual interpretation of Willy’s stalwart wife.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Now that I’ve built the guy up, I don’t want to make him sound more formidable than he is.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
Britain has produced some formidable diarists—Parson Woodforde, Charles Greville, Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson—but no name resonates with the power of Samuel Pepys.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
So formidable was his reputation that Benjamin Rush could stride into a sickroom and calmly tell a suffering individual: “You have nothing but the yellow fever.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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