setback

“I call it radical hospitality. ... He’s really listening to what they say and if there has been a setback, I find him to be highly encouraging. ‘This is what you need to do.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

It is another frustrating setback for Draper and a similar scenario to the All England Club, where he talked positively about his fitness before withdrawing just 24 hours before his first-round match.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

This is how, he believes, this setback can be overcome.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

After the setback, the president tapped different authorities to reimpose a 10 percent tariff on imports.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

This setback had not put a damper on his Himalayan career, however: he’d gone on to climb K2, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Ama Dablam, and, in 1993, Everest without supplementary oxygen.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Zhou told her he wanted to attend, but said he had hit setbacks trying to leave China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Despite the setbacks, Modi dominates national politics, and his government has sought to get ahead of the crisis, pledging legal reforms and swift punishment for those involved in exam paper leaks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

But Paramount made a dramatic retreat Friday after two weeks of legal setbacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

"Things have happened for a reason, in and out of the ring: setbacks after setbacks in boxing and in life," Agyarko said.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

He reported that Lord Dunmore expresses none but the most sanguine expectations of our future success, though he admits that the setbacks of the late battle were great.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson