faces off

present tense third-person singular of face off
as in competes
to engage in a contest eager to face off with her longtime tennis rival

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Recent Examples of faces off Before Alabama faces off against the South Carolina Gamecocks on Saturday, Saban offered a word of warning to head coach Kalen DeBoer and his Crimson Tide. Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
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  • Because Washington’s Zach Ertz has played his entire career in the NFC (previously with the Eagles, Cardinals and Lions) and the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce competes in the AFC, their teams have seldom met.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The documentary, from filmmaker Xander Robin and Artists Equity, is about an initiative undertaken by the Florida government during which the general public competes in a contest to remove invasive pythons from the Everglades.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Price contends the Jameson portion of the USGS report is outdate and inaccurate, pointing to a much more recent 2025 third-party review from Sproule ERCE energy consultants that estimates the Jameson basin could hold 9 billion net barrels of recoverable crude oil.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • First, the union contends that the employees hired after the equity increase was made have no obligation to repay any money.
    Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Boise and Garden City races One candidate running for Boise City Council has past drug charges, the Statesman found.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Filmmaker Jordan Peele's feature debut and first venture into the realm of horror is an almost flawless, emotional roller coaster that races on the tracks of both Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The Stepford Wives (1975).
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Faces off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faces%20off. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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