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He added that the U.S. military remains ready to confront Iran if it crosses any red lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Given that, Miliband said, "we thought it was right to confront this issue and not to just try and sort of pretend that it didn't exist".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

His “return to tradition” was a last-minute awakening, when he was forced to confront all the harm he had done and the miserable life he had led.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

The tour comes as Britain faces pressure to confront uglier parts of its history, namely its central role in chattel slavery.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Her mom had suffered a stroke, and after enduring a long convalescence, then had to confront a painful divorce from Ophelia’s father.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

An epic hero does not scorn death; he appreciates its gravity and confronts it anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

Collins said she went to the team’s game on Friday and started taking photos when Tate confronted her and asked her to leave the field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Recalling how he rushed to the site of the crash, Fernandez said he was confronted with "an image of desolation, despair, uncertainty, death".

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Americans who have gotten used to a labor market always expanding are going to be confronted by a new reality.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Njoki investigated the scheme and confronted the employee with the evidence.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

And the doctor confronted in the emergency room with a patient in agony and another hundred patients in a line down the corridor doesn’t have hours.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Now, just three years later, Bailey is confronting a seismic shift in her state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

But others had wanted the house to become a centre of responsibility, actively confronting the Nazi past.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

"The King will not shy away from confronting the most shameful aspects of the past during this visit," a palace spokesperson said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

The economic pressures confronting the Fed are unusual.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

I was to play Christina, a young married woman confronting her mother-in-law.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago