hurdle
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Your biggest hurdle has already been cleared: You have an ironclad prenuptial agreement.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Getting people to accept them is a much greater hurdle, one that requires a different kind of engineering.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
An application has been made to the European Court of Human Rights, by Norris' lawyers, but solicitor Rory Hearty says this "hurdle" will take many years.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
A federal judge declined Thursday to rule immediately on a proposed settlement between Paramount Skydance and 12 state attorneys general, leaving the last major legal hurdle to the studio’s $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The next hurdle was the horse’s sore and underweight body.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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"Indian products face a variety of tariff and non-tariff hurdles in China that make it difficult to scale exports," says Li.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
And touring globally, was there a country or a stage that presented hurdles in terms of what you can and can’t say on stage?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Where inventory remains locked up and new construction faces more hurdles, builder offerings lean toward the higher end and carry a premium, Zillow says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
She said she and her daughter got into a habit of texting to schedule a call, which “created some perceived hurdles to keeping in touch.”
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
I also can’t seem to get the hurdles down, and it’s getting so frustrating.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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Mr. Walesa is now 82 and stouter than he was when he hurdled that fence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
He topped that in the second quarter with a 33-yard run in which he hurdled another defender and outmaneuvered several others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2022
Matthew Jester intercepted a pass on a 2-point conversion attempt and he hurdled the quarterback during a 100-yard return.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
Joel Allen, who was at Arrowhead Stadium for the game, said it was the first time his son hurdled a defender and kept running, as opposed to losing his footing and falling to the turf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
From the beginning of the computing pools, the women easily hurdled the engineers’ expectations, raising the bar as they did it.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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“We’re building AI compute capacity at scale faster than anyone else, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday, adding that “the industry is hurdling towards ever more compute demands.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Copper’s technical position is similar to where gold was in March 2024, when it broke out decisively from its 13-year base by hurdling $2,200.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Edwin Moses, the godfather of 400-meter hurdling, once theorized that the 10-hurdle race presented 31 moments for potential failure, beginning with the start and including every takeoff, flight and landing over all 10 hurdles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
The triumph vindicated Mullins' decision to skip hurdling and go straight over fences with the seven-year-old.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024
Waving his hands above his head crazily, Hassan ran considerably faster and with more agility than Colin had ever thought possible, weaving around trees and hurdling bushes in a vain attempt to discourage the hornets.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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