Definitions
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- adverb In a
daunting manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to a degree or in a manner that daunts
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Examples
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Current Affairs 2010
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Stromata Blog 2010
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Such is the complexity of medical innovation that physicians' abilities to keep up with it are dauntingly difficult.
Who Paid for Your Doctor's Bagel? Thomas P. Stossel 2012
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Stromata Blog: 2010
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Most dauntingly, Abernathy would have to face critics claiming that the organization he would be helming was in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Only nutritional problems are concerns such as, "Salad bar is dauntingly large."
Top 14 reasons Obama might prefer private school Alexandra Petri 2010
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Apprentice Kagan 2010
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Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.
Law 2010
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The digital moving image festival presents yet another lineup of next-level music videos, graphics, animation and artwork, augmented by dauntingly up-to-date terminology.
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As the Oxford Companion to Food points out, technically the word denotes simply a split pulse, but in India it has come to encompass all dried peas and beans, as well as dishes in which they are the principal ingredient – "of which," the authors explain, somewhat dauntingly, "there are least 60 kinds".
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