Confronted
Sanctioned and confronted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sanctioned" instead a verb "Confronted".
Nearby Words: confrontation, confronting
Sanctioned
Sanctioned adjective - Ordered or allowed by those in authority.
Confronted and sanctioned are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Confronted" instead a verb "Sanctioned".
Nearby Words: sanction, sanctioning
Both words in one sentence
- In the 80s Affectionate Parody of westerns, Rustlers' Rhapsody, the hero is confronted with the fact that one of the requirements to being an official, sanctioned hero is that he has to be a "confident heterosexual".
Source: Sex as Rite-of-Passage
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