challenge
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"I keep encouraging students here to ask more questions, to challenge more, but that's hard to change. I think partly it's culture, partly it's the system."
From BBC β Sep. 22, 2026
He recounts how he approached a new challenge in an area where billionaires often tread but seldom triumph.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 22, 2026
That framework was reassuring to me because it doesn’t require pretending that your 20s are just one long savings challenge.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 22, 2026
A major part of the challenge was generating enough useful training data to teach the policy how to handle aggressive maneuvers without creating an unnecessarily large data set.
From Science Daily β Sep. 22, 2026
Ivan wasn’t up to the challenge of talking, so the designers had proposed adding a recording of a person singing.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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In doing so, they lose economies of scale and also risk their market share, adding to their challenges, he added.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 22, 2026
Paramount agreed to halt the merger until legal challenges to the deal were resolved or June 1, 2027, whichever came first.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 22, 2026
“He takes on challenges, but it’s not a, ‘Let me hurry up and get to this challenge, let me rush through this.’
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
The figures come against a backdrop of wider recruitment challenges for the armed forces.
From BBC β Sep. 21, 2026
We had never received state support for our work, and without the federal dollars we faced serious financial challenges.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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But while no one within his party has openly challenged Merz for the top job, murmurings of discontent have grown louder.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
The connection is one of the most counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics and has challenged physicists' understanding of reality for decades.
From Science Daily β Sep. 20, 2026
Gen. Rob Bonta challenged the move, which is being decided by the California Supreme Court.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 19, 2026
“Agency-led rules and guidance remain constrained by existing law and can be revised by future administrations or challenged in court,” said David Scheuermann, an investment analyst at Swiss crypto group Sygnum Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 18, 2026
He was a half Giant who had once challenged a steam-powered drill to a rock-drilling contest and won using his sledgehammer.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Lithium-ion battery fires are challenging to combat as excessive heat inside a battery creates a self-sustaining chemical reaction called thermal runaway that can then easily spread to adjacent batteries.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
As it stands, the outlook for higher interest shouldn’t derail progress in the deal pipeline, given that most of the industry players already weathered and steeled themselves from challenging macroeconomic conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 22, 2026
"Going into the next decade, we need to be clear-eyed about that and become stronger and more on the front foot about challenging that," he said.
From BBC β Sep. 22, 2026
At Washington Monthly, they’ve incorporated an earnings metric for years and they try to control to some extent for subject matter, but it can be challenging, he said.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 22, 2026
The predictable response is that civil rights advocates are as committed to challenging mass incarceration and other forms of structural racism as they are to preserving affirmative action.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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