gauntlet

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Recent Examples of gauntlet The early schedule was a gauntlet, including seven consecutive road games to end the first month. 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
  • The trials, held in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, often featured video footage of the riot, including people pounding on the door of the House of Representatives, as Capitol Police had their guns drawn and members of Congress were pleading with them to leave the building.
    Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Wednesday morning, Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Khalil Quinan told Judge Young that a grand jury had returned an indictment against Grimes on charges of first-degree murder, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery and said the state would seek his death at trial.
    Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her perceptions transform the reality of migration into an imaginative experience of initiation.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Kaine said she’s grown wary of SpaceX’s response to the ordeal and the Starship program in general.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The entire ordeal was captured by multiple videos and placed online.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • But the real crucible for the mayor is only just beginning to take shape, with her political prospects inextricably tied to the almost unfathomably knotty recovery ahead.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Thilo Kehrer, who rises above Mings, meets the resulting cross emphatically.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The pages feel like a cross between a Discord Chat, public Instagram, and Tumblr’s searchable post tags but are a way for creators who might be more used to TikTok’s algorithm automatically connecting like-minded posters.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for the Palisades, Eaton, Hughes, Franklin and Bridge fire burn scars.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Yesterday, the sound of artillery fire could be heard across the city and thousands of people carrying their belongings rushed for the city center, trying to escape the fighting.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Jan. 2025

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“Gauntlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gauntlet. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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