daunt

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“Ragtime” draws a portrait of America at a time of turmoil with broad dramatic strokes and emotional specificity, a high-wire act that might daunt the likes of Houdini—yet another character in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Temperatures were in the 20s at game time but its didn’t daunt a sellout crowd.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

"Don’t let anything daunt you or take you away from that mission. This legislation is not going to do that. Keep becoming a citizen of this country."

From Fox News • Jan. 9, 2022

What about the corruption that has plagued this country and might daunt would-be émigrés?

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2021

And She that walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien