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"ref": "1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, page 489",
"text": "During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]",
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"word": "עִמּוּת \\ עימות"
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"word": "بەرەنگار"
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"word": "رویارویی"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sprotivstavúvanje",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "спротивставу́вање"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "présmetka",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре́сметка"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "confronto"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "konfrontácija",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "конфронта́ция"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "protivostojánije",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "противостоя́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stolknovénije",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "столкнове́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stýčka",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сты́чка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "konfrontácija",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "конфронта́ція"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "protystojánnja",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "протистоя́ння"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "sútyčka",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "су́тичка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zítknennja",
"sense": "a conflict between armed forces",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "зі́ткнення"
}
],
"word": "confrontation"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "confrontations",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "confrontation f (plural confrontations)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "confronter"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French 4-syllable words",
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms with IPA pronunciation",
"French terms with audio links"
],
"glosses": [
"confrontation"
],
"links": [
[
"confrontation",
"confrontation#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"fr:confrontation"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-confrontation.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-confrontation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-confrontation.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-confrontation.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-WikiLucas00-confrontation.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "confrontation"
}
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