confront
verb (used with object)
to face in hostility or defiance; oppose.
confronts
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present tense formof confront (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But Polanski now confronts the greatest crisis of his leadership so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
When Suvorova confronts her mother after finding the catalog, her mother replies: “Everyone was doing it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
These are problems farmer Ashish Gupta confronts daily on his smallholding in India's Himachal Pradesh, which he farms as part of a cooperative.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He oversees the rapid construction of a powerful naval force and confronts the combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
However, the recent development of resistance to these insecticides confronts the exterminators with the problem of where to go next.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
