variants
also gantlet
as in ordeal
a test of faith, patience, or strength
before being adopted, school textbooks must often run the gauntlet of several local and state committees
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Recent Examples of gauntlet
Sullivan’s inheritance was an imposing gauntlet.
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026
The Spurs have gone through the West gauntlet, eaten a ridiculous 35-point Game 7 effort from reigning back-to-back MVP Gilgeous-Alexander and unseated the defending champs to give Adam Silver a brand new champion for the eighth straight postseason.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 1 June 2026
But the coaching search is a similar gauntlet for a different type of talent identification.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
That being said, whether to try to get closer for better missile shots, while running the gauntlet of Ukrainian SAM units.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
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Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 1 June 2026
The Spurs have gone through the West gauntlet, eaten a ridiculous 35-point Game 7 effort from reigning back-to-back MVP Gilgeous-Alexander and unseated the defending champs to give Adam Silver a brand new champion for the eighth straight postseason.
—Zach Harper, New York Times, 1 June 2026
But the coaching search is a similar gauntlet for a different type of talent identification.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
That being said, whether to try to get closer for better missile shots, while running the gauntlet of Ukrainian SAM units.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for gauntlet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gauntlet
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Meanwhile, Phillips said, victims are left to live with the impacts of the perpetrators’ actions — with the survivors in this case forced to continue to relive their ordeals as the case continues on to the Court of Appeal.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
3 June 2026
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Success after so much failure—gut-wrenching letdowns after episodes of Odyssean temptation to fleeting belief; too many to count—is almost an ordeal.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2026
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For a few species, that condition was not entirely in spite of but because of Native Americans, who set fire to the landscape to clear brush, to stimulate new and vigorous growth, and to improve the ease of movement and hunting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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The video and the SCE data offer proof that the 100-year-old line, which hadn’t been used since the early 1970s, became re-electrified and sparked the fire that killed 19 people and destroyed thousands of homes in Altadena and surrounding areas, attorneys say.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
10 June 2026
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The Karmelo Anthony trial continued Saturday for almost nine hours with about a dozen witnesses at the Collin County Courthouse.—
Dawn White,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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Party leader Samvel Karapetyan is on trial for allegedly advocating for the government's overthrow, which the Armenian-Russian billionaire has rejected as a politically motivated case.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 June 2026
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“Gauntlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gauntlet. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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