confrontational

Example Sentences

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“Republicans and Democrats both look at China’s activities that are destabilizing to global peace and security, and confrontational to American interests, and they have concerns,” Baumgartner says.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

She described the encounter as confrontational — and a disaster.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

By high school it was Dr. Dre, bass rattling the rearview mirror of my beat-up white Monte Carlo—raw, confrontational, impossible to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

But above all, she is seen as the heir to Chaves, whose direct and sometimes confrontational style she shares.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

He kept his tone level, non- confrontational, but not scared.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore