surmount a difficulty
Frequency: 4.01.2 per million words
To overcome a difficulty (more formal/literary).
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- With sheer determination, she was able to surmount every difficulty on her path to success.
- The early pioneers had to surmount incredible difficulties to establish their settlements.
- Our company's success depends on our ability to surmount the current financial difficulties.
- In the final chapter, the protagonist finally surmounts the central difficulty that has plagued him.
- I am confident that together, we will surmount this logistical difficulty.
- Surmounting the technical difficulties was the key to their groundbreaking discovery.
- It was a testament to their resilience how they surmounted one difficulty after another.
- Throughout history, humanity has surmounted seemingly impossible difficulties.
- If we are to surmount this ethical difficulty, we must engage in open and honest dialogue.
- The true measure of character is how one surmounts life's inherent difficulties.