Confront can be categorized as a verb.
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| confront - oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other" | ||
| confront - deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes" | ||
| confront - be face to face with; "The child screamed when he confronted the man in the Halloween costume" | ||
| confront - present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize; "We confronted him with the evidence"; "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions"; "An enormous dilemma faces us" |
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| 1. | verb | You must confront your opponent. | |
| 2. | verb | You must confront your problems. | |
| 3. | verb | A soldier often has to confront danger. | |
| 4. | verb | And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. | |
| 5. | verb | The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. | |
| 6. | verb | In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. | |
| 7. | verb | What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. | |
| 8. | verb | I think it's time for me to confront that problem. | |
| 9. | verb | Tom wanted to confront Mary. | |
| 10. | verb | In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. | |
| 11. | verb | Human life faces the same alternatives that confront all other forms of life—of adapting itself to the conditions under which it must live or becoming extinct. | |
| 12. | verb | His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs. | |
| 13. | verb | Physicians must confront ageism. | |
| 14. | verb | We confront you. | |
| 15. | verb | I didn't confront Tom. |
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| You must confront your opponent. |
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| You must confront your problems. |
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| A soldier often has to confront danger. | |
| And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together. | |
| The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms. | |
| In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. | |
| What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. | |
| I think it's time for me to confront that problem. | |
| Tom wanted to confront Mary. | |
| In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security. | |
| Human life faces the same alternatives that confront all other forms of life—of adapting itself to the conditions under which it must live or becoming extinct. | |
| His family staged an intervention to confront his abuse of prescription drugs. | |
| Physicians must confront ageism. | |
| We confront you. | |
| I didn't confront Tom. | |