daunting
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“Having a kid is daunting in about a hundred different ways, period — but it’s just getting more and more challenging financially,” Matt Schultz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
He said that while the "technological progress" from AI was "inspiring", the "threat it poses according to its own inventors is daunting".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
That is especially daunting to cash-strapped North Korea, which lacks top-shelf hardware across its military.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“My work there has been halting, tentative and generally working around the fringes,” Chatfield wrote in a 1968 journal entry reflecting on the daunting task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It would be a daunting task just to enter the Inner City, much less find the palace and the king.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
Vocabulary lists containing daunting
The Alchemist
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Michelle Obama's final address as First Lady (2017)
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