as in to face
to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage
you must confront your fear in order to conquer it
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Condé Nast abruptly fired four staffers who were among a group of more than a dozen employees who confronted the company’s head of human resources on Wednesday, an unsubtle message to its employee union that the publisher was taking a harder line in its dealings with employees.
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
To confront vaquita declines, in 2019 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species established an agreement to help eliminate supply and demand for totoabas and help remove gill nets from the upper Gulf of California.
—Ryan Green, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
In it, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
In recent years, the local government has needed to confront its own strapped budget and has had to make tough choices between raising residents’ property taxes or cutting back on services.
—Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
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Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
To confront vaquita declines, in 2019 the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species established an agreement to help eliminate supply and demand for totoabas and help remove gill nets from the upper Gulf of California.
—Ryan Green, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
In it, novice nun Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) does her utmost to maintain her Catholic principles, but her lecherous uncle (Fernando Rey) and a motley assemblage of paupers force her to confront the limits of her idealism.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
In recent years, the local government has needed to confront its own strapped budget and has had to make tough choices between raising residents’ property taxes or cutting back on services.
—Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
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Still, the company faces the same existential headwinds that have scared other would-be moguls away from the news business.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Chicago is facing a dangerous lake-effect snow event early Monday morning.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Confront.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confront. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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