confront
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Watching Tony find companionship forced me to confront my own loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Vote Safe organizers stress that their own volunteers will be unarmed and nonpartisan, and say their purpose is not to confront officials but to provide a familiar presence and record what happens.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
From them we can rediscover the virtues, the courage, and the strength to confront the dangers that we face in our time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, in his latest message, has insisted security forces are not under orders to "confront high-school students", only to enforce the law.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
And even supposing he somehow managed to cross the desert, there would still be the Cusp to confront: the mountain of white glass said in legend to be the funeral pyre of demons.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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But Polanski now confronts the greatest crisis of his leadership so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
An epic hero does not scorn death; he appreciates its gravity and confronts it anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But its collapse comes as Congress confronts an even more complex struggle over artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 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
He confronts police problems and finds new donors.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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So, what is a person to do when confronted with a wall of shoes in a run shop or sporting-goods store?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
One key objection was the mature tone of the narrative, in which the child protagonist is directly confronted and endangered by the evils derived from fascist ideologies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 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
He was sure that if Brother Daeng hadn’t come running up, Nok would’ve confronted him right there in the village square.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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 a place filled with people confronting the challenge of rebuilding their lives, the lyrics of one particular song were a reverie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Ashok Khemka became nationally known after intervening in a controversial land transaction in 2012, while police officer Neeraj Jadaun was praised for confronting a mob during deadly religious violence in Delhi in 2020.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
I paint a girl confronting the monster under her bed, who really isn't so scary after all.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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