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You say you want to stop comparing yourself to your friends, but I challenge you to reframe how you view comparison, itself.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 8, 2026
I also think the challenge comes with continued broader adoption and persuading sceptical investors, and the ETF wrapper helps with that.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
One challenge is understanding what happens when a spacecraft lands.
From Science Daily β Oct. 8, 2026
After what appears to be a stern challenge against New Zealand in their home summer, Cummins' men then travel to India and defend the Ashes in England next year.
From BBC β Oct. 8, 2026
And now that Russia had been knocked out of the war, the Germans were sending huge numbers of troops to challenge the outnumbered Allies on the Western Front.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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It is a sign of how intractable China’s economic difficulties are—and the structural challenges leader Xi Jinping faces in addressing them.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 8, 2026
Stand-up initiatives catered to helping people with mental health challenges include Comedy for Coping, taught by comic Dave Chawner; and Stand Up for Mental Health, led by counselor and comic David Granirer.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 8, 2026
Together, the three investigations will address some of the most important challenges of establishing a sustained human presence beyond Earth.
From Science Daily β Oct. 8, 2026
Boots has faced challenges in recent years with growing debt and changing shopping habits resulting in more people buying cheaper products online.
From BBC β Oct. 7, 2026
In their thirties, men and women, black and white, these lawyers were comfortable with one another in a way that reflected a shared mission, shared hope, and shared stress about the challenges they faced.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Winning teams can be poor at challenges: The three teams with the best records in baseball were challenge challenged.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 7, 2026
A place to learn and grow and be challenged.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 5, 2026
The incumbent, veteran left-wing leader Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, will be challenged by 11 candidates, the most prominent of whom is right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro.
From BBC β Oct. 4, 2026
In May, I challenged him to have tacos with my dad and me after the internet mocked him for declaring that the hard-shell tacos at a Del Taco in Barstow were “street.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 3, 2026
“Mighty Mibsters challenged us again,” Ira told us as we sat around Pork Chop’s granny’s kitchen, picking at food.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The hiker was found below the notorious “final 400” stretch, a dangerously steep chute along the route that is particularly challenging to navigate in the winter months.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 8, 2026
The tiny creature was found to interpret DNA instructions in a way researchers had never documented before, challenging a long held assumption about how the genetic code works.
From Science Daily β Oct. 8, 2026
"It is a loving caring community and that's something that's shining through in this challenging time."
From BBC β Oct. 8, 2026
Today’s sensing technology struggles with smell partly because it tries to identify and measure individual chemicals, a challenging task, said Max Shulaker, chief of Health Solutions at Analog Devices.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 7, 2026
It was a case challenging the Alabama Department of Public Safety’s decision to administer state driver’s license examinations only in English.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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