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“Ragtime” draws a portrait of America at a time of turmoil with broad dramatic strokes and emotional specificity, a high-wire act that might daunt the likes of Houdini—yet another character in the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

"Don’t let anything daunt you or take you away from that mission. This legislation is not going to do that. Keep becoming a citizen of this country."

From Fox News ● Jan. 9, 2022

“It was my internal daunt of going into this with somebody that I had this immense amount of respect for,” Q said in a call from Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

Neither the science nor statistics of the new vaccine daunt them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021

"Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

But as he gears up to release his third book on Tuesday, Tweedy admits the task of writing no longer daunts him the way it once did.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

But what he’s mostly done on hard courts is conquer what daunts him, by fighting the kinds of relentless battles that he relishes, as he did against a rising hard-court comer on Sunday.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019

Each of the eight huge prints dazzles and daunts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2015

It daunts her to consider the situation’s basic math, the impossibility of matching her supplies to their numbers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2011

‘I do not know which daunts me more: Fangorn, or the thought of the long road through Rohan on foot,’ said Gimli.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

But overwhelmed by the early weeks of motherhood, and suffering from post-partum depression after a traumatic birth, she was daunted by the prospect of a long journey to a doctor's surgery.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Each of the five judges read all the submitted books, with Beard joking she "occasionally felt daunted as a new box of 30 or so gleaming volumes landed on my doorstep".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Others feel too daunted to leave their apartments even after the end of the lockdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

Paulson said older workers may be daunted by the potential costs, time and effort, as well as the potential stigma associated with being a whistleblower.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025

Those same eyes that he had thought daunted and defeated, there they were lit with a fell light again, clustering in her out-thrust head.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Pawlikowski has said that he keeps returning to the past in his films because addressing our modern ills directly would be too daunting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

It gathers against a daunting backdrop of external risks, continuing to monitor oil market developments, bond yield volatility and the risk of an AI investment pullback.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Haugen and Horwitz battled similarly daunting foes, and the rot they uncovered was just as systemic and frightening as the reporting.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Having a kid is daunting in about a hundred different ways, period — but it’s just getting more and more challenging financially,” Matt Schultz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

The New York Times said: G. M. Pennington faced a daunting task in tying together the dozens of disparate threads in the Bloodfall series to bring things to a satisfying conclusion.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner