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also gantlet
as in trial
a test of faith, patience, or strength
before being adopted, school textbooks must often run the gauntlet of several local and state committees
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Recent Examples of gauntlet
The early schedule was a gauntlet, including seven consecutive road games to end the first month.
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Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
However, around the corner awaits a stretch from the beginning of January into February, where Boston will get minimal rest while facing a gauntlet featuring most of the NBA's top teams.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
That character has been through the gauntlet and what is wrong with the TV Academy that Kelly Reilly hasn’t been nominated?
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
But those lines, and those gauntlets, differ depending who is asked.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
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Michael Russo, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
However, around the corner awaits a stretch from the beginning of January into February, where Boston will get minimal rest while facing a gauntlet featuring most of the NBA's top teams.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
That character has been through the gauntlet and what is wrong with the TV Academy that Kelly Reilly hasn’t been nominated?
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
But those lines, and those gauntlets, differ depending who is asked.
—Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for gauntlet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gauntlet
Noun
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During the 1973 oil embargo, Congress enacted a year-round DST trial to save fuel, but it was revoked in 1975 due to safety concerns over dark winter mornings.—
Maria Sokolina,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In 2023, his case against another tabloid group, Mirror Group Newspapers, went to trial.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Her perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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Freedom refers to the absence of the initiation of physical force, the absence of compulsion and coercion.—
Brian P Simpson,
Orange County Register,
7 Jan. 2025
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Amazingly, Mom stayed conscious and talking the entire time of this ordeal.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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Earlier this month, Main Street Sports officially emerged from bankruptcy, ending a nearly two-year ordeal.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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The quartz mined from this area is used as a crucible to melt polysilicon, which is then used to produce silicon wafers — the base of a semiconductor.—
Emma Roth,
The Verge,
30 Sep. 2024
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And yet so many of us fail to deliver on these warmth-driving behaviors in the crucible of the interview room.—
Jeremy Schifeling, Contributor,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2025
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Thilo Kehrer, who rises above Mings, meets the resulting cross emphatically.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the center of the back of the coin, a large cross was meant to symbolize imperial power, establishing Otto III’s Christianity and blending it with the power of the empire, according to historians.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Naked Burn Gel for fire stunts; Dustin Brooks and Colin Decker for the development of Fire for Hire’s naked burn gel; and Attila T. Áfra for the Intel Open Image Denoise, and Timo Aila for his work at NVIDIA applying U-Nets to denoising.—
Carolyn Giardina,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Giorgio’s Discotheque Sunset at EDITION Giorgio’s Discotheque, from famed LA club promoter Bryan Rabin, will return, this year supporting MusiCares Disaster Relief via a $30 donation required for entry that will go towards fire relief efforts.—
Kirsten Chuba,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Gauntlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gauntlet. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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