redoubtable
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alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying
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For different ecology, head south to the Western Ghats, a redoubtable mountain range hugging the southwest coast of the peninsula. — Payal Dhar, Washington Post, "Keep your cool in India by visiting one of the country’s hill stations," 5 July 2019 This likable and redoubtable Bruins team, players who poured their hearts into the season and sacrificed their bodies during it, deserved better than to go out with a clunker. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "To many, the Bruins’ loss is a rebalancing of the sports universe," 15 June 2019 Within a somber court, flanked on one side by the offices of Paris’s most redoubtable police investigators and on the other by courts of justice, stands an oasis of exquisite beauty, a little church known as the Sainte Chapelle. — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, "Adored, neglected, and restored: A 1968 Nat Geo feature explored Notre Dame," 17 Apr. 2019 The enigma of instantaneous speed goes far back in the history of mathematics and philosophy, to around 450 B.C. with Zeno and his redoubtable paradoxes. — Quanta Magazine, "Usain Bolt’s Split Times and the Power of Calculus," 3 Apr. 2019 André Previn, among the 20th century’s most redoubtable musicians and certainly one of its most versatile, missed two enviable milestones in dying today. — David Mermelstein, WSJ, "Andre Previn: Remembering a Versatile Musician," 28 Feb. 2019 He was extolled in the pages of the New York Times and was embraced by the era's high-ranking foodies, including Craig Claiborne, Mimi Sheraton, Pierre Franey, and Town & Country's redoubtable food editor, James Villas. — David Samuels, Town & Country, "One Bad Egg," 18 Oct. 2013 Either way, Brian Cox stars as the redoubtable patriarch in this new 10-part drama, co-produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "18 New Shows to Watch This Summer," 29 May 2018 Sunnyvale is reasonably close to the San Francisco and San Jose airports, and less than 10 miles from that redoubtable tech feeder, Stanford University. — Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, "The scramble for Sunnyvale: Tech companies in ‘arms race’ for office space," 12 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'redoubtable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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