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- adverb In a way or to an extent that
challenges
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Examples
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Wessex spoke the word challengingly, staring straight into the eyes of
Fire-Tongue Sax Rohmer 1921
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The results are challengingly mysterious, and the approach leaves Frame utterly at peace with himself.
John Seed: John Frame: The Intuitive John Seed 2011
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While Honda and Toyota have attempted some compensatory sleekifying of their minivans, Nissan has made its minivan "challengingly, um, not sleek," Mr. Neil says.
Drive a Big Box 2011
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He looked challengingly at Detective Cole, then me, almost daring us to answer.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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While Honda and Toyota have attempted some compensatory sleekifying of their minivans—the Honda Odyssey's Z-shaped sill line makes it the Aladdin Sane of kid movers—Nissan has made its minivan challengingly, um, not sleek.
For Your Big-Box Shopping, Drive a Big Box Dan Neil 2011
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The results are challengingly mysterious, and the approach leaves Frame utterly at peace with himself.
John Seed: John Frame: The Intuitive John Seed 2011
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Most challengingly, the Republican Senate, and particularly House leaders, will have to lead a new, large conference that neither owes much to the Washington GOP nor holds Washington in much positive regard.
Tony Blankley: Which Party Dies? 2011's Uncharted Political Waters Tony Blankley 2010
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Most challengingly, the Republican Senate, and particularly House leaders, will have to lead a new, large conference that neither owes much to the Washington GOP nor holds Washington in much positive regard.
Tony Blankley: Which Party Dies? 2011's Uncharted Political Waters Tony Blankley 2010
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He looked challengingly at Detective Cole, then me, almost daring us to answer.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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He looked challengingly at Detective Cole, then me, almost daring us to answer.
Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011
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