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Example Sentences
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They arrived in 1994 with three young children and little money, facing a daunting asylum process.
From Los Angeles Times
They are particularly alarmed about certain groups possibly ending up paying more for loans than their peers — a daunting prospect today given the cost of living crisis among the nation’s middle- and lower-class.
From MarketWatch
If he’d been fully aware of the movie’s daunting history, he might have just kept his heat check on ice.
“It was a daunting idea to try and pull together all the threads of the story we’d woven prior to this moment. I felt incredibly lost and a bit untethered.”
From Los Angeles Times
He also understood that pivoting to the right platform was a daunting prospect.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
