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challenge

[chal-inj] / ˈtΚƒΓ¦l ΙͺndΚ’ /




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Mentally, for me, it's been a challenge," said Evans. "

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The news is a blow to the German chemical company’s attempts to challenge rivals from Asia and the Middle East.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But keeping the aging explorer operational has become an increasingly difficult challenge as its power supply slowly fades.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The challenge with all these tools is that they don’t necessarily look like they will build what we want.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

This project is going to be a challenge.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Tight races will take longer, and create the possibility of recounts being triggered and legal challenges.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The milestone also illustrates the extraordinary challenges of communicating with a spacecraft so far from home.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

There are myriad public transportation challenges for the city’s next mayor, including the long-delayed LAX people mover, new rail lines and numerous traffic challenges related to the Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Companies also have to deal with the challenges of integration, spending money to fuse the businesses in ways that will allow them to achieve the stated benefits of the merger.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Horace and Margaret were steadily scribbling away at their assignments, apparently unbothered by Charlie’s challenges.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Residents had challenged the evictions in the Delhi High Court, arguing that moving so far from their jobs, schools and communities would upend their lives.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

They want to be challenged by you, but ultimately they want to feel good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Running as a third-party Progressive in the 1912 presidential election, Roosevelt challenged his former ally, the institutionally conservative President William Howard Taft, splitting the Republican vote and handing the presidency to progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"We cannot remain as unengaged spectators; rather, we must listen with our hearts, allow ourselves to be challenged, and become involved," he said during the weekly general audience in St Peter's Square.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

One day he challenged me to a game of chess.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The Octus sale—Permira’s sixth to a strategic buyer this year—seems to defy a challenging private-equity exit landscape exacerbated by higher interest rates and persistent macro volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

For Beverly being a foster carer with children's charity Barnardo's is challenging but rewarding.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Schaeffler, in a statement, said it was "responding to the persistently challenging environment in the automotive industry."

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

While house was music was based on samples, designed to call a dance floor together, techno was meant to be challenging, alien and fundamentally new.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

But at first glimpse it became obvious that the excavation of the vessel would be enormously challenging.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler


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