challenge
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Once in college, students encounter easy courses with inflated grading that don’t challenge them to develop their potential.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
Foreign ministry spokesman Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri, appealing for international support, including specialist teams and kit to "locate people who may be buried under debris", said the mountain geography was adding to the challenge.
From Barron's β Aug. 31, 2026
He is the ideal bowler for a modern game when the moving ball is making batting a challenge.
From BBC β Aug. 30, 2026
The challenge was finding a mathematical description that could reproduce what the simulations revealed.
From Science Daily β Aug. 30, 2026
Maybe I missed the challenge of the underground.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Huawei flagged challenges ahead, including external uncertainty and rising raw-material costs.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
Ministers want to see companies compete for the funding to help tackle challenges like cutting waiting lists in the NHS and bolstering cybersecurity and defence.
From BBC β Aug. 31, 2026
"The decline in market perception of Shein reflects slower revenue growth amid a slew of geopolitical challenges as well as increased competition," Lorraine Tan, Morningstar's Asia director of equity research, said in a note.
From Barron's β Aug. 31, 2026
That list includes everything from design changes during construction to supply-chain challenges that at times idled a huge on-site labor force.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
“Despite our best endeavors, and we must face its challenges as they arise. The sooner you learn that”—our teacher shot a stare not at Gary Drake but straight at me—“the better.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
“We’re going to need the depth of this roster,” Riley said, “and we obviously challenged that in the fourth quarter, and obviously didn’t respond the way we wanted.”
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 29, 2026
The researchers challenged a study published last year claiming the growth of the universe is slowing.
From Science Daily β Aug. 29, 2026
While the long-term outlook for the U.S. government-bond market remains challenged, savvy traders appear to be positioning for a rebound in the weeks and months ahead.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 27, 2026
Environment Minister David Maynier has congratulated all the agencies involved, saying "illegal wildlife trafficking can only be challenged by a co-ordinated defence of our natural heritage".
From BBC β Aug. 26, 2026
Like many other amateur code breakers, he challenged her to break some messages in a new system that he himself had devised.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The downsizing comes amid a particularly challenging stretch for film and TV productions in California.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2026
That, of course, is how a business flourishes in changing and challenging times.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 31, 2026
Caballero, who once chaired MIT’s economics department, argues that rising debt is challenging the ability of the intermediaries to supply the balance-sheet space, market making, and rollover capacity needed to warehouse them.
From MarketWatch β Aug. 31, 2026
"But it is challenging being young and maybe having different expectations to those that our parents and grandparents' generations had, and different opportunities."
From BBC β Aug. 30, 2026
The hospital job had turned out to be a good one, challenging and satisfying and in line with my beliefs.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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