"confront this question" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to introduce a question that you are going to address. For example, "We must confront this question: What are the ways to increase employee morale?".
Part way through writing "Ravelstein," Bellow made an effort to confront this question.
"I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?" Physicist Stephen Hawking and the tech billionaires Bill Gates and Elon Musk issued a similar warning last year.
Researchers in the public health and medical fields have also had to confront this question when confronting disease that needs immediate attention.
People who preside over large family businesses sooner or later confront this question: How do you keep a family-owned, private company family-owned and private?
Society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?" The point is -- that question is already upon us.
The international community remains obstinate in its failure to confront this question, which needs to be explored with special urgency in cases where the imperative of repaying external creditors threatens to conflict with domestic public expenditure priorities related to health equity and SDH.
Schlosser comes closest to confronting this question in his brief essay on the migrant workforce in the Californian strawberry fields.
After repeatedly confronting this question in various guises, we have recognized that it derives from a mistaken view of evolution shared by many people, including students.
Confronting this question requires us to face up to a feature of the rather cheap way we implemented time travel in our toy models by cut-and-paste.
