intellectual challenge

collocation in English

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intellectual
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us
/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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challenge
noun
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Design remains both anintellectualchallengeand a practical enterprise and will continue to be so.
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We are left with a puzzlingintellectualchallenge: to elucidate how the necessary levels of trust could ever have been compatible with our selfish genes.
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This is a dream project, because it is such an artistic andintellectualchallenge.
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Because if it does, at that younger age even more children will struggle to cope with theintellectualchallengeof adult-style language learning and will be put off.
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It is also a source of great unhappiness and frustration to the children concerned, who become bored and dispirited at the lack ofintellectualchallenge.
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The joy of chess is its voluntary nature and the fact that it becomes a pastime that develops into an exceedingly rewardingintellectualchallenge.
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I hope at least to give him a littleintellectualchallenge.
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Taxonomy was described in paragraph 2.12 as a "mundane activity"which did not constitute an"intellectualchallenge".
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That was, and is, theintellectualchallengeof creative contact with customers.
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To some extent it creates anintellectualchallengeand stimulus, thereby contributing to the general benefit.
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There was nointellectualchallengein that interruption that need concern me now.
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That widening of skills undoubtedly makes nursing more attractive to individuals—usually graduates—who relish a higherintellectualchallenge.
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Can he tell us whether the introduction of modularity is an advance in creating anintellectualchallenge?
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That shows the complexity andintellectualchallengeof the law of privacy.
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Co-ordination of knowledge from a number of different areas in the interests and service of mankind is itself a first-rateintellectualchallenge.
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Cable has a potential that offers an interesting financial andintellectualchallenge.
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Zlobin is an avid art and antique collector, calling the hobby a form ofintellectualchallenge.
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If you like anintellectualchallengethis one is for you.
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In the third contest, the two contestants have a test of their ability to solve a puzzle or otherintellectualchallenge.
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There are a number of intellectual challenges to be solved to truly make the approach informative.
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