challenged

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The government challenged that decision in the Court of Session, sparking a lengthy series of complex appeals.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Günter’s optimistic concept of a “life drive” is challenged when he takes a job at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

“Gains from here are going to be a little bit more challenged, unless we can get some of those issues resolved in the Middle East.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Canseco, the steroids-fueled, defensively challenged left fielder of the Texas Rangers, made a similar blunder on May 26, 1993, when a ball hit by Cleveland’s Carlos Martínez bounced off his head and over the wall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Yet, once those ideas were challenged, progress was breathtakingly rapid—after fifteen centuries of stagnation, there have been fewer than another five centuries from the time of Copernicus to the present day.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin