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Escalating fears over energy prices and inflation drove the 10-year yield above 5% Monday, a pivotal milestone that is forcing investors to confront whether the bond market is entering a new era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

Akira and her therapist had agreed that attending the Kids Against Climate Change rally was a good way to confront what had happened to her.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Brammall reflected on his busy year personally and professionally, including how being a new dad helped him access what his “Last Seen” character confronts and whether he’s up for a big action role next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

There he confronts not the harsh physical challenges of the prior books—“Heaven and Hell” and “The Sorrow of Angels”—but adult problems of love and responsibility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Sooner or later, everyone who studies the Inka confronts this question.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

"When confronted by hate, our response must be to increase our love of community, of decency, of fairness, of family," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

A little more than a month earlier, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, a Russian ally, confronted Putin with a similarly blunt message at a meeting in Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Between 1900 and 1910, as evidence for Mendel’s “units of heredity” mounted, biologists were confronted by the impact of the new theory.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Roger Cook, the state's premier, described the news as a "very confronting situation".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Sara’s not sure what she’s supposed to make of Scott’s behavior, and she certainly doesn’t feel comfortable confronting him, not knowing what the company norms are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

"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

Finally the British came upon Lexington Common and the two sides met face-to-face: several hundred British soldiers confronting less than a hundred militia.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell