confrontation
Example Sentences
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Foxes goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, speaking to BBC Radio Leicester without knowledge of his team-mate's confrontation outside the ground, said he "can understand the frustrations" of supporters.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
It is, admittedly, hard to reconcile the fact that something so unambiguously tasteless has provoked this confrontation.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Mette Frederiksen’s party suffered its worst election in over a century, despite her defense of Greenland and confrontation with Trump.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
"I would have preferred peace, but I think there is no other way but war and confrontation," said Hamed, 37.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 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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