Example Sentences

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This dauntingly ambitious work is exceedingly difficult to pull off, but East West Players has the know-how to do it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

Budget constraints and dauntingly high NHS waiting lists make her job even harder.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024

Standing in the way of these plans are not just the dauntingly complex interactions of birds, microbes, and climate, but also mundane challenges.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

ProPublica did find that challenges sometimes identified errors in the voter rolls, which are dauntingly complex databases that are forever evolving as people register, move, die or otherwise change their statuses.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2023

In fact, both pieces are still among the most performed of all nineteenth-century favourites, in a dauntingly strong field.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall