confront

His first film in 12 years itches to confront today’s moral limits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

When her wife got out of the car to film and confront ICE officers, Good was told to leave, then ordered to get out of the car.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

McElwee refuses to scrub the truth from his personal histories, choosing instead to confront his own regrets head-on.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

What the protesters have undeniably shown, he says, is a willingness to confront the state.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The soldiers around us all stood up to confront the Confederates as they charged up the hill.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The Hades sequence gets much of its emotional weight from Page, as Sinon confronts Odysseus with the lie that sent him to his death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

But it is also now true that the arithmetic and sentiment the prime minister confronts are bleak and getting darker.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

“If my kids had to come by and see this, I would like to hear how you would explain to my children what you are supposed to be,” Babb says as he confronts Gamble.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

He does not merely mourn his friend; he confronts, for the first time, the intolerable knowledge of his own extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

But the willful ignorance so many school administrators exhibit when confronted with evidence of harm leaves me skeptical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

The girl's mother confronted Leto, but he repeated the comment, it is alleged.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Called to testify, Franco’s daughter Adriana denied she was ever in a relationship with Quintero, even after Quintero’s lawyer confronted her with photographs of the two arm in arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Several weeks into the rollout, the lofty goals of the accounts are being confronted by day-to-day realities.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The big surprise was the inclusion on the committee of Harvey Rape, the owner of Harvey’s Cafeteria, who had confronted protesters outside his business only a few nights before.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

When audiences gathered in ancient Athens to watch plays by Sophocles, they were confronting a shared reality together.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rather than controlling the narrative, the party found itself confronting a wave of reels and memes on Instagram and X.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The judgment is complicated because the Fed is confronting inflation its analytical apparatus wasn’t built to explain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Pelley was shown the door with cause after confronting management over the firings at a June 1 meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He felt slightly nervous at confronting the first hurdle of his Captaincy.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling