noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
take up the challenge/gauntlet
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Rick took up the challenge and cycled the 250 mile route alone.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pick
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They challenged the Heat and then stood and watched Miami pick up the gauntlet .
run
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Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.
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Must the consultant run a long gauntlet of interviews, just to test his or her credibility.
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So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers' land.
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But in announcing the move Chris Dean had to run the gauntlet of press more interested in his private life.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
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There's a long waiting list and those who get there have to run a gauntlet , which not all survive.
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Yet neither of them had to run the gauntlet of hate that Barmby has experienced.
take
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Was he taking up the gauntlet against the subtle yet inevitable erosion such wealth would bring to the culture of his people?
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Voice over One of the big four supermarkets, Sainsbury's says it's happy to take up the gauntlet .
throw
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It was as if she'd thrown down an invisible gauntlet on the table, and Shae knew a moment's bleakness.
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It's going on five years since Earl Woods threw down the gauntlet and the snickering has stopped.
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Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony, including Wally Fuentes Morrison, and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet.
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At this point Morag Harkness, Sales Manager threw down the gauntlet and challenged the guys to a netball match.
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Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Our players have to go through a gauntlet of fans to get to their cars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As he went back to where the Percys were, four men wearing rubber gauntlets came carrying large aluminum cans.
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It was a gauntlet tossed down to the concept that computer time was so precious that not a moment should be wasted.
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The gauntlet is being thrown down by Pemex to the international community.
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The injury was caused by fighting with maces whilst not wearing a gauntlet .
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.