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confront

[kuhn-fruhnt] / kənˈfrʌnt /


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Stick with their receiver or come up to confront Rakowski if he decided to run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Rather than confront the employees, Boina decided to close the studio.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Faruqui said the alleged facts of the case appeared “quite old” and that Floris and Benavides had the right to confront them “as soon as humanly possible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

His Tuesday night campaign event was interrupted when an attendee attempted to confront him over the ad.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Shawn was too strong, she said, too persuasive, for her to confront him alone.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Waititi confronts an ominous future in which children undergo genetic enhancements to become super-smart and society is even more stratified than it is now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Quentin Fottrell confronts one 60-year-old reader’s dilemma: He wants to retire, and his wife says the couple can’t afford it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

She is filming the scene in a busy Baghdad street on her phone, and the camera captures him resisting her attempts to open the door as she confronts him.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Answering it confronts investors with some very different considerations than what goes into buying stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I couldn’t really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Eventually, the complaints became sufficiently widespread that Instacart did what corporations increasingly do when confronted with an inconvenient internet phenomenon: It made the phenomenon into an advertisement.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

In 2019 Coles confronted Jessica on a Peterborough housing estate.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

But several Theranos staffers and journalists say Holmes was frequently deceptive and would lie repeatedly, especially when confronted with facts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

That’s what happened on Saturday when a heckler confronted Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

She stepped out into the hallway, determined to face down his insolence, or his mockery, and was confronted instead by her sister, clearly in distress.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But beyond the scientific discussion, society is confronting disruptions such as workplace displacement and a changing relationship to technology — issues Gát believes are being conflated with the consciousness debate.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Together, we must strengthen an alliance capable of confronting threats of our age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Jeremy Allen White finds the power of social media frightening -- an anxiety he's now confronting in his latest film.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In one video widely shared on social media recently, a passenger on a minibus is seen angrily confronting a pastor attempting to board.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Was I right in confronting her so bluntly?

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane


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