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Definition of Confronts
1. confront [v] - See also: confront
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confronts
Literary usage of Confronts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"This country now confronts problem of too great power in the hands of the wielders
of trans] tation—they thwart the first principles of our Government, ..."
2. The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke (1889)
"... of Revenue and Statistics—What is a Way-bill—How Disbursements arc Made—The
Social and Industrial Problem which Confronts Railway Corporations. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"ARMED LINER ISSUE Serious War Problem Confronts the President and Causes a Tempest
in Congress By the Editor ..."
4. The Twentieth Century City by Josiah Strong (1898)
"The extraordinary situation which confronts us, the crisis of which may be
reasonably expected about 1920, demands some extraordinary provision. ..."
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