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to daunting
verb
To discourage, intimidate
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Admissions criteria overseas range from forgiving to daunting.
In the case of many cancer treatments, this could amount to daunting costs for patients.
The entrepreneur Elon Musk isn't a stranger to daunting business propositions, from electric cars to space travel.
TIM BROWN, the boss of IDEO, a consultancy that helped shape Apple's first mouse, does not have solutions to daunting global problems such as climate change, epidemics and persistent poverty.
On the contrary, a revolutionary move, he was an ad man – a renowned mad man from the helter-skelter competitive world of the 60s, media director of the mighty Ogilvy and Mather agency: and well used to daunting challenges.
Abramović, whose work explores, among other concepts, the metaphysical relationship between a performer and her audience, has spent her career taking simple ideas to daunting extremes — most famously in "The Artist Is Present," in which she spent more than seven hundred hours sitting at a table in MOMA, staring wordlessly at strangers, in the spring of 2010.
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Not that this seems to daunt Takahito Iguchi.
There was much to daunt me.
None of this seems to daunt Charles Taylor, however.
But it takes a lot to daunt me.
Mistakes did not seem to daunt Mr. Pai.
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