Example Sentences

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But he acknowledged the risks of challenging noisy individuals directly because "you don't know who you are confronting".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Americans are confronting higher prices at the pump, and the average External link price of gas is more than $4 across the U.S.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

“We have the governor proclaiming that we are at the highest ever expenditures for public education, and yet we, here in Los Angeles Unified, are confronting this financial situation,” Gonez said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

But all these companies are confronting the fact that it isn’t that easy to deliver bandwidth-heavy events to millions of viewers in real time on the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Miss Wright comes from a country where the friends have at several occasions been put to test and therefore she appreciates the difficulties that the friends are confronting.

From The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Shoghi Effendi