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Escalating fears over energy prices and inflation drove the 10-year yield above 5% Monday, a pivotal milestone that is forcing investors to confront whether the bond market is entering a new era.

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

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

What Monica did, following her instincts, at dinner, I started to do on the page — confront the uncomfortable head-on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

His first thought was to rush out and confront them, but a certain shrinking held him back.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

He confronts the erasers with the trace of what they sought to erase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

What confronts us, now the excitement’s over, is our own failure.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

Around 200 people, some wearing masks, confronted police in riot gear after they descended on the Eastney Landing ferry port area, where the migrants were landed.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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 floods are the first major crisis Shah has confronted since being elected in a landslide on a wave of Gen Z discontent earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

She trembled like a calf confronted with a leopard.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Sara’s not sure what she’s supposed to make of Scott’s behavior, and she certainly doesn’t feel comfortable confronting him, not knowing what the company norms are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

"President Noboa is confronting criminal organizations that previously operated as if they were untouchable. But they're not," he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

At the moment—March 1893—the greatest inconvenience confronting Holmes was his lack of help.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson