formidable

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"Our consumer business worked to overcome formidable challenges," rotating chairwoman Meng Wanzhou said in Tuesday's report, noting also that Huawei was "moving toward a future that is full of uncertainty".

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Mr. Daugherty’s study hews closely to the details of his subject’s life, while Mr. Streitfeld’s is organized more around McMurtry’s formidable body of work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

With four decades of experience under her belt and more enduring roles than most actors get in an entire career, Gellar has long proven herself a formidable presence across film and television.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Taylor, born James Wesley Voight in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1940, was actor Jon Voight’s brother, but built a formidable music career outside of his famous sibling’s shadow.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

So formidable was his reputation that Benjamin Rush could stride into a sickroom and calmly tell a suffering individual: “You have nothing but the yellow fever.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy