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formidable

[fawr-mi-duh-buhl, fawr-mid-uh-buhl] / ˈfɔr mɪ də bəl, ˌfɔrˈmɪd ə bəl /




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“Michael” is bizarre because everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of his greatest hits, like toxic ooze leaking out from the middle of two slices of Wonderbread.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

OpenAI's ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the Grok chatbot made by Musk's xAI lab.

From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026

Her formidable, untitled 2026 sphinx regally commands its space among ancient Egyptian and Roman sculpture, a marvel of the cross-temporal and cross-spatial, spiked with specific references to Black self-determination.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

As if a formidable pale index finger with a square-trimmed nail rewinds the hands.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The windows from which the light emerged also showed Lord Asriel’s formidable power.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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