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confrontation

noun as in conflict

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For obvious reasons, that increases the likelihood of a violent confrontation.

The app’s developers claimed the app fostered public safety by letting users locate and avoid confrontations between protesters and police.

From Fortune

After a confrontation in which he fatally shot one man, police say, Rittenhouse fell while being chased by people trying to disarm him.

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The confrontation, resolved over the weekend, is the latest in a string of clashes centering on the software sales-related growth engine of America’s most valuable company.

From Fortune

A confrontation with the police could have been very dangerous for Cooper.

Their confrontation at dinner was, without a doubt, the highlight of the episode.

Rioting, shoplifting, and violent confrontation with the police took place shortly thereafter.

A video of the confrontation shot by a bystander shows Garner surrounded by a group of police officers.

I need some stimulation in my blood,” Bergesio says, “and here you have confrontation.

Charles Barkley has never been one to shy away from confrontation both on and off the basketball court.

Never did God, who delights in antitheses, produce a more striking contrast, or a more extraordinary confrontation.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

And this new confrontation with another and still newer world, with another Unknown, demands a new religion, a new God.

But he cursed himself for a fool and a coward, not to have gone away—abroad—long ere such a possible confrontation threatened him.

At last she saw his table, and the direct confrontation of his stare.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to confrontation, such as: battle, contest, crisis, dispute, encounter, and fight.

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

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