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confrontation

[kon-fruhn-tey-shuhn, -fruhn-]

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noun

an act of confronting.

the state of being confronted.

a meeting of persons face to face.

an open conflict of opposing ideas, forces, etc.

a bringing together of ideas, themes, etc., for comparison.

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Psychology. a technique used in group therapy, as in encounter groups, in which one is forced to recognize one's shortcomings and their possible consequences.

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Origin:
1625–35; confront + -ation; compare Medieval Latin confrontātiō, French, Middle French confrontation

Related forms

non·con·fron·ta·tion, noun

re·con·fron·ta·tion, noun

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Example Sentences

Historically, the route to fixing broken systems goes through struggle, confrontation and even revolution.

Confrontation will lead only to its self demolishments in its outside islands.

Though the confrontation may have been unusual, the outcome was not.

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Historically, the route to fixing broken systems goes through struggle, confrontation and even revolution.

Confrontation will lead only to its self demolishments in its outside islands.

Though the confrontation may have been unusual, the outcome was not.

Previous studies found a stone arrowhead lodged in his left shoulder, which implied a violent confrontation preceded his death.

For the first time, they will be able to get right in the middle of a prehistoric confrontation never witnessed by any human.

He isn't shy about the confrontation of failure and he doesn't hold back negative feedback.

Kennedy's finest hours probably occurred during the gravest confrontation of the cold war.

Yet a policy of confrontation rather than cooperation is entertained instead.

Ballard believes this migration will likely cause confrontation between humans and animals to increase.

Here, the media has done a poor job, raising the strake for confrontation through distortion.

When piranhas enter into a confrontation they'll make a barking noise.

It is still seething over the losses that it sustained in the mutiny, but a confrontation with the government is unlikely.

As he attempted to walk by, the elephant seal awoke, and this brief confrontation occured.

Still another circuit primes a male cat for a hostile confrontation with another male.

Now those two opposing propositions are facing their moment of final confrontation.

No less unavoidable is a confrontation with the unions.

Confrontation resulting in serious injury or death is rare.

Society prefers to look the other way and avoid the confrontation.

The alternative is also clear: a military confrontation.

But the movement has split into warring factions-and some of them are keen on confrontation.

Comedy is about aggression and confrontation and power.

Yet there can be little doubt it was an unusually large confrontation.

But it's not advised, as it may lead to a confrontation.

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Try to suppress commentary or laughter and do not look backwards to see if they want a confrontation.

Cuomo to shrink state government as governor may force a confrontation with public unions over labor contracts and benefits.

Witness a confrontation between the venomous cane toad and the people trying to stop its encroachment.

Nothing can prepare you for the confrontation with six stories of sculptural.

The confrontation escalated into violence when one man brandished a pistol and fired at the second group, hitting two men.

The growing confrontation promises to be an epic battle that shapes the prosperity and progress of both companies.

On his return, he persuaded a policeman to accompany him as he followed the couple to the inevitable confrontation.

For instance the two predator species may have run into each other, perhaps in confrontation over a prey animal, she noted.

The dawn of independence has virtually came with confrontation of many problems for effective administration.

It was the first serious clash in what seems to be a spiraling confrontation between authorities and settlers.

After all, violent confrontation between the two nuclear powers flares repeatedly.

She cannot walk the streets of her city unveiled or unchaperoned without risking confrontation with the mutawaeen.

Kudrin out of office for insubordination after the two had an icy confrontation on television.

Even though the chance of any given confrontation developing all the way to the violent stage might be lower in a.

The internet offered a place to figure himself out without forcing confrontation or premature change in his marriage.

Yellow evidence markers littered the ground on the block where the confrontation began.

Only six months ago, their country was in the midst of an international confrontation and a civil war.

The looming courtroom confrontation is drawing interest from freedom-to-tinker.

But the plot twist that led to the confrontation was wonderfully done.

Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

It includes a drawing of a face mostly covered by a mask alongside a narrative describing a confrontation with police.

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World English Dictionary

confrontation or confrontment (ˌkɒnfrʌnˈteɪʃən, kɒnˈfrʌntmənt)

—n
1.	the act or an instance of confronting
2.	a situation of mutual hostility between two powers or nations without open warfare
3.	a state of conflict between two antagonistic forces, creeds, or ideas etc

confrontment or confrontment

—n

confrontational or confrontment

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

confrontation

1630s, "action of bringing two parties face to face," noun of action from confront. International political sense is attested from 1963 and traces to the "Cuban missile crisis" of the previous year. Related: Confrontational (1970).

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