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- the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean
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- movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye
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- we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding
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- the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs
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face
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of face (Entry 2 of 2)
- the criminal hid his face from the news cameras as he slumped into the patrol car
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- the face of the store building has been altered many times over the years to meet changing tastes and needs
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- it's rude to make a face when your dinner hostess offers you broccoli
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- a much-needed sandblasting revealed that the face of the old stone church is actually a pinkish granite
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- a rainy day is no excuse for just moping around with a long face, so let's do something
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- on the face of it, the country went to war for noble reasons
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- affectation,
- demonstration,
- display,
- fiction,
- image,
- imitation,
- imposture,
- likeness,
- make-believe
- (also make-belief),
- pose,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- representation,
- simulation
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- I see they've hired some new faces
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- you have to wonder how anyone has the face to ask such a personal question
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- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brassiness,
- brazenness,
- cheek,
- cheekiness,
- chutzpah
- (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa),
- crust,
- effrontery,
- gall,
- nerve,
- nerviness,
- pertness,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- sauce,
- sauciness,
- temerity
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- he managed to maintain face despite the endless series of crises
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“Face.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/face. Accessed 24 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of face was in the 14th century
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