confronting

Example Sentences

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Waters said, while there was "no single reason why Labour collapsed... confronting the extent and the depth of the defeat is the first thing".

From BBC • May 31, 2026

In 1878, confronting the lowest prices for pig iron since colonial times, American ironmasters wondered if the smokestacks on their idled blast furnaces might serve a higher use as astronomical observatories.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

She’s also confronting this existential question: What do I want my life to look like now?

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Many consumer discretionary companies are confronting higher costs emanating from the oil-price shock.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

“I didn’t feel comfortable confronting him,” Moore told a journalist years later, “so I said, ‘Gee, Doctor, I don’t know how I could have made that mistake.’

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot