confront
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Rosenberg, the former Macalester president and author of “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education,” told MarketWatch that universities often confront problems reallocating tenured faculty members.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
After being swept by the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, the richest team in baseball must confront its own advancing age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Vote Safe organizers stress that their own volunteers will be unarmed and nonpartisan, and say their purpose is not to confront officials but to provide a familiar presence and record what happens.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Corner Man follows a fighter forced to confront life outside the ring after spending years dedicated to the sport.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
She had the presence of mind to set the ruined vase back down on the step before letting herself confront the significance of the accident.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Quentin Fottrell confronts one 60-year-old reader’s dilemma: He wants to retire, and his wife says the couple can’t afford it.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
She is filming the scene in a busy Baghdad street on her phone, and the camera captures him resisting her attempts to open the door as she confronts him.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
When Suvorova confronts her mother after finding the catalog, her mother replies: “Everyone was doing it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But its collapse comes as Congress confronts an even more complex struggle over artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Sooner or later, everyone who studies the Inka confronts this question.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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That’s what happened on Saturday when a heckler confronted Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
In Paris, police fired a water cannon and teargas after hundreds of protesters, most wearing face masks and some setting off fireworks, confronted them at several locations, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
"We commemorate the victims, we share their pain," he said, adding that antisemitism must be confronted with "even greater resolve".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In the parking lot afterward, students confronted him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
As he was taken to the jail in Guthrie, he was confronted by a local reporter.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Fauzi Rahman, another firefighter in Palangkaraya, highlighted this as one of the main difficulties confronting him and his peers.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Netflix, confronting flagging engagement, has tried a number of ways to get subscribers to spend more time on its platform, including adding live channels of programming as well as bundling with other streaming services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Jeremy Allen White finds the power of social media frightening -- an anxiety he's now confronting in his latest film.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
In a place filled with people confronting the challenge of rebuilding their lives, the lyrics of one particular song were a reverie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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