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daunting







ADJECTIVE
frightening
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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

The father-son tale at the center was what drove Garelick to take on such a daunting project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

But Louise Kennedy, the author of Trespasses, seems unfazed with the daunting notion of what is often called second book syndrome.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The state troopers were huge and daunting in their gray uniforms.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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