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hurdle

[hur-dl] / ˈhɜr dl /




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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

"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

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

“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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