confronting
Example Sentences
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Even after children reach adulthood, parents may continue to see them as needing protection, rather than as capable of confronting difficult truths.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Around the same time, she sent the email confronting Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
For all of California’s strides to protect people in fire zones, it has largely avoided confronting a deeper question: Should people be free to build there in the first place?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The software giant is confronting the AI tide by shaking itself up before someone else does.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
No one felt like confronting the old lady just yet.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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