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confrontation

noun as in conflict

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He then stabbed the victim, who had only moved to Huddersfield a fortnight previously to live with his uncle, around 40 seconds after the confrontation started, in full view of passers-by, including children.

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Spivey got out of his truck holding a pistol and, in the confrontation that followed, was killed by a gunshot to the back.

But while the revelation that brings the play to a painful climax has a faint whiff of contrivance about it, the angry confrontation that ensues between Nelson and Nick has a bruising, brutal power.

Jacob cockily admits that he expects—wants—the night to end in some kind of violent confrontation, it hardly matters with whom.

Most European academics appear less willing to risk a confrontation with its manifestation on American soil.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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