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dare

[dair] / dɛər /
NOUN
challenge, defiance
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Now it has spread to a forested area where health workers, who are already coping with short supplies and local suspicions, dare not venture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Then the Supreme Court spanked them for it and said: How dare you keep applying actual law?

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

Only dragons dare challenge the World Cup in the battle for streaming viewers this June.

From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026

Or did none of his aides by now dare tell him so?

From BBC • May 30, 2026

At nine, Coogie ate a June bug on a dare.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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