confrontation
Example Sentences
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Some candidate narratives also push back on the article’s suggestion that voters have little appetite for ideological confrontation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
"Cracks within the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council and open Iran-UAE confrontation have altered the geopolitics," he added.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
The AI’s misidentification and the human decisions that followed turned a normal evening into a traumatic confrontation.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Quietly spoken and humble off the field, the former Wasps front row is a powerful athlete on it, who enjoys physical confrontation.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
The epochal confrontation between the two views of the Cosmos—Earth-centered and Sun-centered—reached a climax in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the person of a man who was, like Ptolemy, both astrologer and astronomer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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