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confronts

vb. (en-third-person singular of: confront)

Usage examples of "confronts".

Now they could explore in comfort, freed from the greatest danger that confronts a man in space, and forgetting all worries about suit integrity and oxygen reserve.

President, distinguished fellow delegates, I would like to begin with a brief summary of the situation which now confronts us.

Almost to his feet, THOMAS casts him off, and confronts him: the YOUNG MAN, in torn and soiled working clothes, is simply brute force incarnate.

To a person untouched by self-doubt, the wails heard today about the anguish of modern man as he confronts the question "Who am I?

But there is another level on which man confronts the issue of freedom: the existential or social level—and here escape is possible.

Louis and confronts a crisis for the port there by rerouting the flow of the Mississippi River.

In July 1863, the same week Lee's army confronts the great Federal forces at Gettysburg, Grant succeeds in capturing both Vicksburg and the Confederate force that had occupied it.

Winn continues to stir up the Bajorans with her superficially passive rhetoric and confronts Keiko at the door to the school.

On tape she confronts Chandonne, her no-nonsense nature marching forth, "Sir, I need you to understand how important it is for you to tell the truth now.