Confronting
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verb (used with object)
1.
to face in hostility or defiance; oppose: The feuding factions confronted one another.
2.
to present for acknowledgment, contradiction, etc.; set face to face: They confronted him with evidence of his crime.
3.
to stand or come in front of; stand or meet facing: The two long-separated brothers confronted each other speechlessly.
4.
to be in one's way: the numerous obstacles that still confronted him.
5.
to bring together for examination or comparison.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| —vb | |
| 1. | ( |
| 2. | to face boldly; oppose in hostility |
| 3. | to be face to face with; be in front of |
| 4. | to bring together for comparison |
| [C16: from Medieval Latin confrontārī to stand face to face with, from frons forehead] | |
| con'fronter | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
confront
1560s, "to stand in front of," from M.Fr. confronter, from M.L. confrontare "assign limits, adjoin," from L. com- "together" + frontem (nom. frons) "forehead." Sense of "to face in defiance or hostility" is c.1580.
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Example sentences
In our intimately connected world, dealing with one challenge means confronting many.
The sense that the future confronting art-school graduates is increasingly uncertain has figured in many curricular revisions.
In confronting this dilemma, government policymakers are undoubtedly hoping that there will be no need for a major intervention.
They'd have an emotional attachment to it, and they wouldn't give it up without confronting it.
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