Showing Results for "confronted"

confronted

VERB

challenge

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accost defy encounter meet oppose repel resist

STRONG

affront beard brave dare flout front scorn withstand

WEAK

call one's bluff come up against face down face up to face with go one-on-one go up against make my day meet eyeball-to-eyeball stand up to tell off

Antonyms

STRONGEST

avoid dodge evade surrender yield

WEAK

back down

Example Sentences

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At 33, I’m confronted with this conundrum — a massive group wants to travel somewhere and doesn’t know how to handle food costs — at least once a year.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Suddenly they were confronted by security guards and New Orleans police and manhandled out of the hall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

When confronted with an undeniable fact — in this case, thousands of people booing a sitting president — the healthy human mind adjusts its understanding of reality.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

“My personality is such that if I’m confronted with it I don’t back away from that,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Two years earlier, in fact, Burr had claimed to have confronted Hamilton with a personal complaint about incessant vilifications of his character, and Hamilton had acknowledged his indiscretion.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis