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accept a challenge

VERB
call one's bluff
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He’s kind of like Michael Jordan; they accept a challenge, like: ‘Are you challenging me? Are you really doing that?’

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2021

“And I think we would accept a challenge from Mr. T - not an arm wrestling challenge - but maybe a mixed doubles challenge if he’s around.”

From Washington Times Feb. 13, 2018

The bigger the reward, the easier the task that is chosen; while without rewards, human beings are more likely to accept a challenge.

From Salon Oct. 13, 2012

Current truck series points leader Johnny Sauter agrees with Keselowski, but he’d like to see anyone who thinks drivers aren’t athletes accept a challenge.

From Washington Post Jul. 23, 2011

There’s none alive that shall accept a challenge I have refused.

From In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)




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