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confront

[kuhn-fruhnt] / kənˈfrʌnt /


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Watching Tony find companionship forced me to confront my own loneliness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Oppenheim said as the process rolled out it began to feel like "the only way, maybe, to actually make this is also to have someone kind of confront, you know, their delusions on certain aspects."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ritual compels us to confront our losses and integrate them into our lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But the president has never had to confront a prop that has stopped cooperating.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

I ate half a bar of chocolate to give me strength and nearly ran to second period to have time to confront her before the bell rang.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

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

And unless she confronts him, these judgments will live in her mind unchallenged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Brammall reflected on his busy year personally and professionally, including how being a new dad helped him access what his “Last Seen” character confronts and whether he’s up for a big action role next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

These are problems farmer Ashish Gupta confronts daily on his smallholding in India's Himachal Pradesh, which he farms as part of a cooperative.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sooner or later, everyone who studies the Inka confronts this question.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Ethologists, who study animal behavior, have confronted this problem for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Salazar was later identified as the suspect when a motorist told police he had been aggressively confronted by a driver minutes before the shooting, according to evidence presented in court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

When confronted later by TMZ with the fact that Smith had actually been at the Iowa-Maryland game, Schmitt responded: “My job is to ask the question.”

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The problems and pressures faced by historic societies are very different from those that confronted peoples in the Paleolithic or Neolithic eras.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Ukraine is understandably cagey about how it goes about confronting this increasingly sophisticated threat, but electronic methods to disrupt the drones' connectivity are high on the list.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

As federal investigators try to determine the cause of the crash, island residents are mourning the dead and confronting the trade-offs of life so isolated from the rest of Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Vigilance and caution remain essential in confronting the risks of extremism and terrorism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"He didn't have a problem confronting much more experienced researchers."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The look of people confronting a great tribal loss.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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