Both Uses
confront
in
The Egg, by Anderson
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- As so often happens in life he had thought so much and so often of the situation that now confronted him that he was somewhat nervous in its presence.†
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- Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)