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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

“It was my internal daunt of going into this with somebody that I had this immense amount of respect for,” Q said in a call from Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

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

‘I do not know which daunts me more: Fangorn, or the thought of the long road through Rohan on foot,’ said Gimli.

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

If you are not daunted by the amount of work needed to maintain grounds of this size, it is a mini slice of paradise on a sunny day.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

“Finance is no longer just an economic issue—it’s part of deterrence,” because an adversary would be daunted by robust supplies and production, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

Pippin subsided; but Sam was not daunted, and he still eyed Strider dubiously.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But the sheer volume will be daunting, Content warned.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Reshoring efforts can take years—a daunting prospect when tariff rates fluctuate often.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

All this should help him make a success of his daunting role flying close to the sun.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Many had been separated from loved ones during the fire and now had the daunting task of searching through a ruined city for them.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy