a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
Used in a Sentence
challenge
How to use challenge in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for challenge.
Editorial note
But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge.
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Quick take
a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of challenge gathered in one view.
a call to engage in a contest or fight
questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for challenge.
noun
a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
noun
a call to engage in a contest or fight
noun
questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy"
noun
a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
noun
a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
verb
take exception to; "She challenged his claims"
verb
issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match"
verb
ask for identification; "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard"
verb
raise a formal objection in a court of law
Example sentences
But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge.
The challenge you've briefly engaged with isn't a problem; it's a market opportunity.
Information that might challenge the groupspeak is discarded.
Some consider this a credit, some a detriment, but no matter what I consider it to be a huge technical challenge.
Learning foreign languages to high levels of communication proficiency was the first adult learning challenge I took on.
The patent bar is in an uproar that issued patents might not be deemed presumptively valid when challenged but might be much more vulnerable to challenge going forward, and so too are the trolls.
Finally, Aubrey De Grey's unapologetically straightforward logic [1] regarding aging has gained traction with the crowd who has the means to tackle this grand challenge.
Our biggest challenge is not IV, but all of those people in the world who give IV and people like them a nod, a kind of respect, an admiring acknowledgement that they've abused the system and gotten away with it.
They don't want to challenge the government, they don't want to question it, not even when it's clearly violating it's own most important rules - the rules that, presumably, we've been fighting to promote these last 200 years.
And as the challenge went on we discovered that he had cornered Jon in a room to try and get him to speak poorly of Zoe, the only negative “story” they could muster out of all fifteen contestants.> “Two of the other teams have women on them.
The reason it is not a particularly exciting case from a headline standpoint is that it deals with what appears to be a specialist technical issue of patent law, that is, what is the proper "standard of proof" to be applied when a patent is challenged as being invalid?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use challenge in a sentence?
But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge.
What does challenge mean?
a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power"
What part of speech is challenge?
challenge is commonly used as noun, verb.