Example Sentences

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South African artist Candice Breitz described Kouoh as "magnificently intelligent, endlessly energetic and formidably elegant".

From BBC • May 11, 2025

My first impression of Copilot is that it will be a useful tool, but also a formidably competitive colleague for those who do office work - especially within companies looking to make savings.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023

In the three years he delved into Egyptian art, Freer may not have untangled the country’s formidably lengthy, richly multicultural history.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

After intermission came an early Debussy rarity, “Fantaisie,” which is essentially a piano concerto, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist, as he had formidably been in the Messiaen.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023

She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro