confrontation
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4.4
- noun
- /ˌkɒnfrənˈteɪʃən/
- Formal
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contraste
- A productive confrontation of ideas often leads to innovative solutions and deeper understanding.
- a direct confrontation
- confrontation of differences
- a self-confrontation
Some of it also is a block that people have to look at themselves because it is, it is a little bit the confrontation with reality.
- Some of it also is a block that people have to look at themselves because it is, it is a little bit the confrontation with reality.
- Among all the different psychotherapeutic schools is that the confrontation of existential problems, voluntary confrontation, is curative.
- That which with the scientific confrontation in the eruption occurs are beings themselves, and beyond that, nothing.
Examples
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The confrontation of these two kinds of composition should be the substance of our work.
Academic text (2017) -
One reason for this is that the confrontation has been more than a matter of academic disputation.
Academic text (1991) -
Understanding is reached only after confrontation.
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The absurd is a confrontation between self and world.
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Their confrontation is about lifestyle, what kind of people should we be.
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Discovery and confrontation of hidden aspects of the self, both good and bad.
Academic text (1999) -
To organize this confrontation, an author must work with two languages within the same passage.
Academic text (1996) -
The ability to meet our responsibilities at home and abroad will require confrontation of questions of environmental cleanup and control.
Academic text (1992) -
Dialectics has done away with the confrontation between good and evil, truth and falsehood, forever.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now, on Monday, you're going to hear about this novel's confrontation with the idea that art could be saving, that it could somehow be redemptive.
Synonyms
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3.7
A pairing of teams, people, or things to compete and be compared
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confrontation is built from con- 'with' and front 'face', which gives the image of bringing things 'face-to-face'. So a confrontation can also mean putting two texts or ideas side by side to compare them.