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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of confront.

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Examples

  • What Jonas confronts is something he desperately hopes is fiction -- a forced encounter with "reality" on a transformed, elemental level -- but that increasingly forces itself on him as reality, however uncanny it has become.

    Translated Texts 2010

  • In the final confrontation of the movie, Luke again confronts Vader with the Emperor in the room.

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  • As McStalin confronts the ruin he has made after just one year in office as PM but ten as Chancellor, he will not be comforted by the thought that the best one can say of him is that he, and he alone, is principally responsible for it.

    Archive 2008-06-22 2008

  • As McStalin confronts the ruin he has made after just one year in office as PM but ten as Chancellor, he will not be comforted by the thought that the best one can say of him is that he, and he alone, is principally responsible for it.

    The Magician Has His Trickery Exposed 2008

  • Finlay again confronts Monty, asking how he knew that Samuels had not been in the Army.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • But the television environment Sweeney now confronts is tougher than what any of her predecessors faced, and perhaps tougher than anything a television executive has faced in the fifty years since the medium pervaded the American home.

    The Queen of Tween 2004

  • But the television environment Sweeney now confronts is tougher than what any of her predecessors faced, and perhaps tougher than anything a television executive has faced in the fifty years since the medium pervaded the American home.

    The Queen of Tween 2004

  • Now, the first thing our definition confronts is a form of attack that is constantly made which is not to meet the principle itself or to say it is wrong or it is right-because upon that platform I think the gentlemen quickly get out of court.

    The Open Shop: Why Is It; Why Should It Prevail? 1921

  • Marc then awakens, wraps himself with the silver shroud that covers Khonshu’s statue, and again confronts Bushman.

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  • Ardwin confronts his stepmother, who turned him into a swan originally, and she says that she could make him "whole" again and return him to "the Land of the Drably Ordinary.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

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