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confrontation

noun as in conflict

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Her words also offered a contrast to the bombast and confrontation that has typified most of modern American politics.

From BBC

Los Angeles police are searching for a man suspected of stabbing and wounding another man during a confrontation aboard a Metro bus Saturday on the city’s south side.

Now the Gaza war, and questions over who will govern Gaza afterwards, have forced that political gridlock into open confrontation, as Netanyahu's far-right allies push hard for annexation.

From BBC

The former Scottish Tory leader said he would report Parliamentary Business Minister Jamie Hepburn to police over an alleged confrontation on Wednesday.

From BBC

“I think it surprises audiences when it happens,” Anderson, 55, says of Perfidia’s confrontation with Lockjaw.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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