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Recent Examples of facedownAngela Prichard was found lying face down in the kennel's washroom when investigators arrived at the scene.—Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2025 Turn the pans face down onto the cooling rack, and carefully lift them off.—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025 Glaser was found face down in the bathtub, WCAU reported citing court records.—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025 Seeing Hill face down on the ground surrounded by officers who were not Black like him, my mind raced to George Floyd.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for facedown
Draw a line from those two stars downward (north) and one encounters Polaris.
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Jesse Emspak,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
These showed that a chunk was missing from the bottom of Earth’s crust beneath the volcanoes: For some reason, the bottom of the crust became heavy and dripped downward from the top part, leaving a gap.
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