tall order
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Fabio's prediction: The boys have got a tall order on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
It’s a tall order for a group that looked hopelessly disjointed in the first two weeks to travel across the country and humble one of the hottest teams in the league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Making enough profit to justify the biggest infrastructure splurge ever is a tall order ahead of Anthropic and OpenAI’s hotly anticipated IPOs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Getting investors to look past the dazzle of artificial intelligence and data centers toward ordinary roads, bridges and cell towers is a fairly tall order these days.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
A tall order, but they got down to work.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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