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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

There’s also this: Nadal never seems to take a point off, never seems to let an on-court situation daunt him, never gives in or gives up.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 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

Simon Block’s bucking bronco of an adaptation could daunt any theater company, but ETC Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, who directs this production, should be well-equipped to wrangle the juxtaposition of the humorous with the dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2019

A setback like this did not daunt him.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

But what he’s mostly done on hard courts is conquer what daunts him, by fighting the kinds of relentless battles that he relishes, as he did against a rising hard-court comer on Sunday.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2015

It daunts her to consider the situation’s basic math, the impossibility of matching her supplies to their numbers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011

The thought of stealing it, in front of everyone, daunts me.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

AI may not be sentient, but it gets daunted in the same way we do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

But overwhelmed by the early weeks of motherhood, and suffering from post-partum depression after a traumatic birth, she was daunted by the prospect of a long journey to a doctor's surgery.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Auto enthusiasts, often daunted by the increasingly complex and proprietary nature of vehicle repairs, have drawn momentum from farmers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Paulson said older workers may be daunted by the potential costs, time and effort, as well as the potential stigma associated with being a whistleblower.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

"Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Here, including the daunting high-speed, downhill Turn Seven known as Scheivlak, Norris was fastest, 0.28secs quicker than Russell.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

But what looks good on spreadsheets ignores daunting constraints.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The most daunting challenge was intuiting what Bessette would have worn in the years before she met Kennedy and became one of the most photographed women in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

But when it comes to something you started through a combination of your own hubris, miscalculation and ineptitude, the challenge is especially daunting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

I overheard references to daunting GPAs, too, and to horseback riding championships and symphony orchestras.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz