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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 red-clad crowd of more than 29,000.

From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2022

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2021

The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into the darkness behind.

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

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

But Cain, an interior decorator for 25 years, wasn’t daunted by the chaos that came with such an extensive project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The words of former champion and current world number one Judd Trump show that even experienced players at the top of the game remain daunted at the iconic Sheffield venue.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 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

Those same eyes that he had thought daunted and defeated, there they were lit with a fell light again, clustering in her out-thrust head.

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

It gathers against a daunting backdrop of external risks, continuing to monitor oil market developments, bond yield volatility and the risk of an AI investment pullback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Haugen and Horwitz battled similarly daunting foes, and the rot they uncovered was just as systemic and frightening as the reporting.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“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

That's daunting, but here are four ways that experts say you can at least make a start on saving for a deposit.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Even for an expert code breaker, this is daunting.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield