Example Sentences

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Washington now acknowledges China as a "near-peer", says Wyne, who describes Beijing as "arguably the most powerful competitor that the United States has confronted in its history".

From BBC • May 12, 2026

He has confronted demonstrators numerous times at the Broadview ICE processing center, where federal agents have repeatedly deployed tear gas and other crowd-control methods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Since splitting with Trump, Cohen has confronted his past lies head-on.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2024

Yet the New Orleans-based court has been the driving force behind many of the big issues the Supreme Court has confronted over the last five years.

From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2023

In constructing machinery of this kind there is no intellectual difficulty greater than that which has confronted every attempt everywhere to substitute order for force.

From The European Anarchy by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)