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America’s semiconductor strategy now must confront not only who controls the factories, tools, and materials required to make chips, but also who controls the language those chips speak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Matières Fécales set out to confront a fashion industry they believed was full of excess and waste.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

Supporters see a decisive leader prepared to confront Colombia's entrenched violence.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

His first film in 12 years itches to confront today’s moral limits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

It never occurred to Moody to confront his brother; this was only what he expected from Trip.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The Hades sequence gets much of its emotional weight from Page, as Sinon confronts Odysseus with the lie that sent him to his death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Judges praised the "originality, innovation, ambition" of Jolly's work which "confronts a topic of immense complexity in a gripping tour de force".

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Richemont reported an acceleration in sales growth for its most recent quarter at a time when the luxury industry confronts challenging market conditions due to economic and geopolitical instability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

On “Never Be the Same,” Thompson confronts his resistance to change, whether it be during a relationship or in its aftermath.

From Salon ● May 15, 2026

An old homeless man confronts me quietly with his beard, his missing teeth, and his poverty.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

His wife confronted him weeks later after noticing pages missing from a credit report he had doctored to hide the loans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The girl's mother confronted Leto, but he repeated the comment, it is alleged.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Called to testify, Franco’s daughter Adriana denied she was ever in a relationship with Quintero, even after Quintero’s lawyer confronted her with photographs of the two arm in arm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Tension flared ‌in the 40th minute when two ‌opposing players confronted each other after a shirt-tugging incident, with other players rushed to join in the confrontation.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

With that, he left her and confronted the noble bully and his horde.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

Jett almost went to Monroe because of the Vikings’ passing attack, but he remembers Marsh confronting him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Western Europe, which had been remarkably relaxed about the siege as it was happening, found itself confronting an enemy much more formidable than before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Their experiences offer an insight into a question confronting emerging economies like the Philippines: what happens when AI begins to automate the jobs that helped lift millions of people into the middle classes?

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

And a growing number of students are confronting that compromise at an earlier age.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

And then shame was replaced by guilty anger as he recalled Jan’s confronting him upon the sidewalk in the snow.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright