confront
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It took her 18 years to fully confront Apted over his questioning.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
In our list, you’ll find titles that confront Sept. 11 directly, but others that bring to mind a deeper, broader canon of trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Were my parents trying to spare me, as a young child, from learning about human atrocity, or was the Holocaust, and the damage it had done to our family, too difficult for them to confront?
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Himalayan nation has limited resources to confront destruction on such a scale, and the disaster is stark warning of the dangerous fragility of its mountain environment in a rapidly heating world.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Carla was forced to confront the cop's face.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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These are problems farmer Ashish Gupta confronts daily on his smallholding in India's Himachal Pradesh, which he farms as part of a cooperative.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Carl Wilson reviews “Lost Weekend” and the ways it confronts grief, new love, and sudden fame.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Such behavior has grown more troubling as China confronts economic problems ranging from sluggish demand to a depressed property market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The prime minister's friends continue to emphasise Sir Keir Starmer's determination, while acknowledging the brutal political reality he confronts – particularly if Burnham wins in Makerfield later this month.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
I couldn’t really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Ultimately, the hearing was postponed after Davis was confronted about his decision to go on a podcast dubbed “The Lighter Side of Serial Killers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Once they moved in, they were confronted with the challenge of living in an old house with high-tech amenities, like smart home technology controlled by an app, or how to open the entry gate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Around 200 people, some wearing masks, confronted police in riot gear after they descended on the Eastney Landing ferry port area, where the migrants were landed.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
She also confronted the practical consequences of putting a new federal voting regime into place weeks before an election.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Now, all that confronted me were its shadows—the swarming crowds of people, the trash littering the walkways, the hollow spaces.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Now that the euphoria of that moment has passed, the CJP is confronting more difficult questions - not least how to hold on to the attention it captured.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Stock investors have been grappling with the spillovers from the bond market turmoil while confronting a wall of worry built on sticky inflation, war-fueled rising oil prices and Fed interest-rate uncertainty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"President Noboa is confronting criminal organizations that previously operated as if they were untouchable. But they're not," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Austin taught Fuller to take on the upper class in the black community with the same zeal and uncompromising spirit that he used in confronting the white power structure.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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