as in courageous
feeling or displaying no fear by temperament
undaunted despite their repeated failures at starting a business
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Recent Examples of undaunted
But those who have stayed are undaunted and say the most productive outcome of their work has been new friendships across racial lines.
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Debbie Elliott, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
Rubio, undaunted by the prospect of taking on the man who was then the state’s top Republican and sensing a shift in voters’ mood as the tea party movement was rising, ran for his party’s nomination.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
Payne was axed from the show but, undaunted, returned to audition again two years later.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
With an ageless, elastic voice and exceptional 30-member band, Wonder furnished one of the best concerts LCA has seen in recent memory, undaunted by a series of technical issues that broke up the show’s first hour and a half.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
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Debbie Elliott, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
Rubio, undaunted by the prospect of taking on the man who was then the state’s top Republican and sensing a shift in voters’ mood as the tea party movement was rising, ran for his party’s nomination.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 12 Nov. 2024
Payne was axed from the show but, undaunted, returned to audition again two years later.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
With an ageless, elastic voice and exceptional 30-member band, Wonder furnished one of the best concerts LCA has seen in recent memory, undaunted by a series of technical issues that broke up the show’s first hour and a half.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undaunted
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Joshua Zeman’s documentary chronicles the courageous efforts to save them, first from starvation, then via transport to new homes.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Democratic budget was moved from the House to the Senate, which allowed four courageous Democratic senators who recognized the historic moment for structural budgetary changes.Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
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The moment a curious kitten terrified his owners with a fearless leap has gained viral attention online.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
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Ago Bay is the heartland of Japan's legendary ama divers – generations of fearless women who, for thousands of years, have held their breath and plunged to the seabed in search of scallops, abalone, sea urchins and sea snails.Scott Campbell, theweek, 23 Dec. 2024
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The streets here are steep, as in San Francisco-steep—so precipitous that brave locals (or crazy, some might say) hurtle down them in homemade bobsleds every January.Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Benjamin Franklin was not only a political thinker but a scientist and a brave advocate of smallpox inoculation.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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In spite of the leisurely pace of change, To mix valiant drinks for the future.Czeslaw Milosz, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Montana State, however, made a valiant comeback effort.Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Lupita rules as the teacher and the only one who knows how to act heroic in the moment.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
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The murder of six million Jews—and the question of whether the British authorities could have done more to save them—complicates an otherwise ennobling story of the country’s heroic stand against Nazism, its finest hour.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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But at the very end, America's Democratic majority came home to Carter in a late surge that flooded polling places in party strongholds across the nation and stopped Ford's gallant comeback just short of victory.Peter Goldman, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
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The Bears had mounted a gallant comeback in the second half against the best team in football and were in a position to tie the score with a field goal or win the game with a touchdown.Steve Silverman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Undaunted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undaunted. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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