challenging role

collocation in English

meaningsofchallengingandrole

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challenging
adjective
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/
difficult, in a way that tests your ability ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofchallengingandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Home visitors have achallengingrole, requiring personal warmth, problem-solving and organizational skills, and crisis management abilities, and must work alone and with challenging recipients.
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We know it will be achallengingrole, but we are excited by the challenge and look forward to working together to meet it.
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It would offer an exciting,challengingroleat the cutting edge of military technology.
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The young man thrust into achallengingrolehas reveled and revealed his ability.
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Yuranosuke in this speech is cloaking his true intentions, as he must constantly through the play, rendering him achallengingrole.
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Though this was a verychallengingrole, she did not manage to achieve a breakthrough for her performance in this series.
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When it comes to his role, he considered it as his mostchallengingroleso far.
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According to her, this is the mostchallengingroleshe had ever played.
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Rhod took on his mostchallengingroleyet and had to completely transform himself to help get into character for his performance.
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Faye always named this film as one of her personal favorites, but it was also her mostchallengingrole.
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Richard thought it sounded like achallengingrole.
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Eastwood said that he had a fun andchallengingrole, and it's an oddball story.
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But more than training they will need to be willing to adopt independent and challenging roles and stances.
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It is through scrutiny, area committees and full council that there will be important and challenging roles for non-executive members.
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She wasn't fond of the script and at the time was yearning for some dramatic and challenging roles to play and therefore declined the film.
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She was part of several commercially and critically unsuccessful films, in spite of doing even more challenging roles.
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Despite this success he subsequently decided to turn to film for more challenging roles.
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She took challenging roles which most of the heroines of the 1960s refused to do.
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After years of success, in 2003 she was seen in several low budget films, yet not less challenging roles.
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Oscar is consistently sought out by top directors to fill challenging roles on innovative projects.
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