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confront

[kuhn-fruhnt] / kənˈfrʌnt /


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Oppenheim said as the process rolled out it began to feel like "the only way, maybe, to actually make this is also to have someone kind of confront, you know, their delusions on certain aspects."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, in his latest message, has insisted security forces are not under orders to "confront high-school students", only to enforce the law.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Only a decade later, at age 29, did she confront what happened, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson received a technical foul late in her team’s playoff loss to the Fever after leaving the court to confront a fan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

I go to the gym one day and confront Coach before practice is supposed to begin.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

She is filming the scene in a busy Baghdad street on her phone, and the camera captures him resisting her attempts to open the door as she confronts him.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Schwartz faces a number of challenges in her first months as director, as her agency confronts staff cuts, measles outbreaks and a potential pneumonic plague case in Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

When Suvorova confronts her mother after finding the catalog, her mother replies: “Everyone was doing it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

But its collapse comes as Congress confronts an even more complex struggle over artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

In Paris, police fired a water cannon and teargas after hundreds of protesters, most wearing face masks and some setting off fireworks, confronted them at several locations, AFP reporters saw.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

This presents a challenge for a man who confronted generations of skeptics long before the advent of the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

"It's understandable because GPs are often confronted with depressed patients and therefore they're very focused on diagnosing depression correctly," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

One key objection was the mature tone of the narrative, in which the child protagonist is directly confronted and endangered by the evils derived from fascist ideologies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

And when he confronted Lee in the spring of 1863, he was even more sure of himself.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The series joins a wave of recent films and TV shows exploring and confronting the rapidly evolving tech sector.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Jeremy Allen White finds the power of social media frightening -- an anxiety he's now confronting in his latest film.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ukraine is understandably cagey about how it goes about confronting this increasingly sophisticated threat, but electronic methods to disrupt the drones' connectivity are high on the list.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Last week, the school issued a more-than-200-page internal report confronting what it called an unprecedented crisis in higher education, thanks to unstable federal funding, falling public trust and the rise of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

What was surprising was the speed with which her relief that Robbie was alive was supplanted by her dread of confronting him.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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