confront

Ritual compels us to confront our losses and integrate them into our lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But the president has never had to confront a prop that has stopped cooperating.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Even more perplexing was his decision in March to confront the Pentagon over certain military and security uses of his AI, at the risk of losing everything.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"I want to confront the many challenges facing parents and children today from that same perspective, as someone living through them myself, and think about how we can find a way forward together."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

She led the Batys off to one side and muttered at them; then the three of them returned to confront J. R. Isidore, who felt uncomfortable and out of place.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

But Polanski now confronts the greatest crisis of his leadership so far.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

A musical prodigy turned small-town piano teacher confronts a figure out of her past and revisits her memories of a performing career gone wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Brammall reflected on his busy year personally and professionally, including how being a new dad helped him access what his “Last Seen” character confronts and whether he’s up for a big action role next.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

These are problems farmer Ashish Gupta confronts daily on his smallholding in India's Himachal Pradesh, which he farms as part of a cooperative.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

After Brandon can no longer deny that he is the one in the tape, his friend Justin confronts him with the theory that he orchestrated the whole episode as an elaborate subterfuge.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The actuator bottleneck Cardenas has warned against is being confronted industry-wide in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Salazar was later identified as the suspect when a motorist told police he had been aggressively confronted by a driver minutes before the shooting, according to evidence presented in court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But when the husband stepped outside, he said he was confronted by armed police.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

At a time when other sitcoms occasionally tackled social issues in “very special” episodes and “The Cosby Show” hewed to its namesake star’s dedication to respectability politics, “A Different World” regularly confronted harder topics.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

When confronted with the charge that, despite his position as vice president, he had paid Callender to write diatribes against the president, Jefferson claimed to know nothing about it.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Jeremy Allen White finds the power of social media frightening -- an anxiety he's now confronting in his latest film.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

In one video widely shared on social media recently, a passenger on a minibus is seen angrily confronting a pastor attempting to board.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

In a place filled with people confronting the challenge of rebuilding their lives, the lyrics of one particular song were a reverie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

That also means confronting one of the industry’s most persistent assumptions: that a successful chef must sacrifice everything else to the job.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

But in his eleven years he had never been faced with the responsibility of making a fearful decision like the one confronting him.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt