confrontation
Example Sentences
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"We do not approach this challenge with needless confrontation but with the posture of measured and deliberate strength."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
They stay silent, avoid attention and confrontation, and look the other way.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Brown’s flying career unraveled as well, after a 2016 confrontation during a UPS flight to China from Australia.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
Some candidate narratives also push back on the article’s suggestion that voters have little appetite for ideological confrontation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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