daunt

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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

What about the corruption that has plagued this country and might daunt would-be émigrés?

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2021

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

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2021

The mountains seemed to be trying with their deadly breath to daunt them, to turn them back from the secrets of the high places, or to blow them away into the darkness behind.

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