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Students must confront: “Who am I when I don’t have a screen?” said Myers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

It took her 18 years to fully confront Apted over his questioning.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In our list, you’ll find titles that confront Sept. 11 directly, but others that bring to mind a deeper, broader canon of trauma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Were my parents trying to spare me, as a young child, from learning about human atrocity, or was the Holocaust, and the damage it had done to our family, too difficult for them to confront?

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

And even supposing he somehow managed to cross the desert, there would still be the Cusp to confront: the mountain of white glass said in legend to be the funeral pyre of demons.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

Carl Wilson reviews “Lost Weekend” and the ways it confronts grief, new love, and sudden fame.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Hades sequence gets much of its emotional weight from Page, as Sinon confronts Odysseus with the lie that sent him to his death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Such behavior has grown more troubling as China confronts economic problems ranging from sluggish demand to a depressed property market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

As soon as dinner is over, Grandma follows me to my room and confronts me.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"When confronted by hate, our response must be to increase our love of community, of decency, of fairness, of family," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Once they moved in, they were confronted with the challenge of living in an old house with high-tech amenities, like smart home technology controlled by an app, or how to open the entry gate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The revolt reached a crescendo when correspondent Scott Pelley confronted Bilton at his first staff meeting, accusing Weiss of “murdering” the show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

As new waves of feminists confronted different issues, some became exasperated by Steinem’s seemingly perennial role as the face of the women’s movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

The FBI was expert at covering its tracks, and its agents were willing to lie when confronted.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Roger Cook, the state's premier, described the news as a "very confronting situation".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Even after children reach adulthood, parents may continue to see them as needing protection, rather than as capable of confronting difficult truths.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Abdullah, a longtime security guard, was praised for his heroic actions confronting the shooters and giving others time to flee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Right now, we are not preparing for it. I don’t see evidence that leaders, experts and communities are confronting the challenges adequately.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

This can mean being honest about your own behaviors or emotions, or confronting truths with people who harmed you, as Terryl did, and Linton did, and still struggles to do.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel