daunted
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Each of the five judges read all the submitted books, with Beard joking she "occasionally felt daunted as a new box of 30 or so gleaming volumes landed on my doorstep".
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Did that mean Holland was daunted at the thought of working with one of cinema's greats?
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But Brown wasn’t daunted by history, and he wasn’t about to pull his players to rest for the next game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
"Not in public. If I begin to feel daunted I'll go off by myself. I'm like a cat that way."
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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