See challenging in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1918, Estcourt Rowland Metzner, The conflict of tax laws, page 151:",
"text": "There are always sincere challengings of the findings, always the objections (sincere in another sense) of those whose interests seem threatened.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of making a challenge."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃælənd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃælɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/"
},
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}
],
"word": "challenging"
}
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