confront
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The U.S. has hard-earned experience in shipping highly enriched uranium from foreign countries, but it would confront unique challenges in removing nuclear material from Iran, according to former officials and experts outside government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
How will this government and its successors, and society at large, confront the choices a more muscular defence posture will demand?
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
That’s right, and it also forces him to confront those harms head on.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
By the very nature of where we live, we have to confront these realities every day.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
She had the presence of mind to set the ruined vase back down on the step before letting herself confront the significance of the accident.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Vocabulary lists containing confront
The Bill of Rights
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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Twelve Days in May
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