confront
Example Sentences
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Demonstrators confronted immigration-enforcement officers in New York City on Saturday, preventing masked federal agents from leaving a parking garage.
Her assistant Esme confronts her about her conduct, using the information to blackmail her in an unexpected way.
But Mr. Sullivan freshens the familiar with shrewd diversions and, above all, the phenomenon of a relentlessly logical investigator confronting a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.
Europeans are now confronting deepening questions about the future of the alliance.
"Either to terrify the residents and force them to move," he said, "or to put pressure on the Lebanese army to confront people."
From BBC
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