Synonyms for hurdles
hur·dles

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1. hurdles, hurdling, hurdle racenoun

   a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles

   Synonyms:
   hurdle race, hurdling

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1. • Track Event

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1. List of paraphrases for "hurdles":

   obstacles, barriers, impediments, hedgerows, hedges, hindrances, constraints, obstructions

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How to use hurdles in a sentence?

1. Evan Burfield:

   There's not a lot of tech hurdles nowadays.

2. Erik Gordon:

   The costs that could be saved in the distribution operations are high - and the antitrust hurdles are higher.

3. Fred Hu:

   There's still interest and appetite for Chinese companies to do deals in global markets, but in the near term, capital controls and uncertainty about protectionism are significant hurdles to overcome.

4. Jamaican Omar McLeod:

   It wasn’t the perfect race and I hit a lot of hurdles on the way, but I’m so happy I could win, i’m going to the Rio Olympic Games with the aim of winning gold.

5. Phil Robertson:

   Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.