challenge
146
3.5
- noun
- /ˈtʃælɪndʒ/
- Formal
- Second, a major challenge concerns laws and regulations.
- a legal challenge
- a constitutional challenge
- a court challenge
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Watch on YouTubeThe moon has a legal right to pursue legal challenges till it's done.
- The moon has a legal right to pursue legal challenges till it's done.
- But here's a challenge to your urge to caution.
- So possibilist, you might have a challenge from our economist.
- But I had to deal with other people's challenge in me changing my identity.
- We are responsible because we can respond to challenges to our reasons.
Examples
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In this context, school counselors face significant challenges in meeting the needs of their students.
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Hands down, their biggest fear is a formal challenge to a resource in the school library.
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Refusal of the challenge brings the same result as failure.
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To date, none of these legal challenges to the Fiduciary Rule have been successful.
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Both states' reform legislation withstood legal challenges under federal and state law.
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Thus, it is necessary to examine the validity of local challenges to land application.
Academic text (1999) -
All of this made it a major challenge to humoralist orthodoxy.
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The laws that they passed still face a legal challenge in federal court.
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To date, none of these legal challenges to the Fiduciary Rule have been successful.
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Its ruling on these two legal challenges begins to set the U.K. Constitution in stone.
Synonyms
320
3.4
The act of resisting an idea, plan, or change
187
4.0
Refusal to accept a change or new rule
59
6.4
A lawyer's statement in court asking the judge to stop a question or evidence
2
5.5
Showing doubt about whether something is true or reliable
1
8.4
A strong disagreement about something important
Antonyms
Idioms
To serve food with strong or unusual flavors to test someone's sense of taste
Compounds
Problems women face at work, like unfair pay or few chances to be leaders
How Disputed
- Specialized
129
7.7
- Formal
149
5.1
- Formal
146
3.5
318
3.6
40
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Challenge comes from an old French word chalenge that meant 'to call out' or 'accuse'. This helps explain the legal sense: a challenge is a formal objection or question where you 'call out' a person or decision as not right.