1
as in bordering
to stand or sit with the face or front toward
the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean
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as in confronting
to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage
movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye
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3
as in clothing
to cover with something that protects
we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding
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as in encountering
to enter into contest or conflict with
the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs
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Recent Examples of facing
Dasha Shunina,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Behind the wooden facings of the abutments now lie concrete and steel pilings with a 50-year design life.
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Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
10 June 2026
Jen Murphy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Make sure the shiny, reflective side is facing out.
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
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Noun
The most important question facing longevity biotech is not whether humans will live forever.
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Dasha Shunina,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
Behind the wooden facings of the abutments now lie concrete and steel pilings with a 50-year design life.
—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
10 June 2026
Verb
Earlier this year, Thailand's luxe Chiva-Som Hua Hin Health Resort lowered the age for its multigen wellness offerings from 16 to 14, to better support adolescents facing pressures that previous generations did not experience.
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Jen Murphy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Make sure the shiny, reflective side is facing out.
—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for facing
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Los Angeles was back in front by the end of the third via a run-scoring single by Max Muncy and Alex Call’s sacrifice fly to right.
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Larin was standing directly in front of Xhaka and got hit byXhaka's cleat after the Swiss captain went to kick the ball.
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Also, a Ukrainian drone strike killed one person overnight in Russia’s Belgorod border region, bordering Ukraine, local officials said.
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Van Noord Growers is a 9 hectare (~25 acres) greenhouse operation, located in Zeeland, at the mouth of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt river delta, bordering Holland and Belgium.
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Cell phone video shows the woman confronting longtime street vendor Arabelia Martinez at her hot dog cart at Figueroa and 7th Streets.
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While immigration becomes increasingly polarizing in the United States and Europe, Africa's leading economy is also confronting the issue.
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Not feeding the hungry, not tending to the sick, not clothing the naked, not welcoming the refugee.
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This is like inviting a homeless person into your home, sheltering them, feeding them, clothing them, educating them, and having that person's confidant leak that the newly comfortable person doesn't think less of you.
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Heaton recalled encountering a farmer in Uganda while volunteering there.
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Salonen found renewal not from the desperation of rethinking but from freshening, illuminating the perception of exceptional young musicians first encountering greatness.
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Tickets were still available for purchase on the X Games website as of early Friday evening, ranging from $19 single-day entry tickets to more than $400 premium tickets with access to the concerts on top of the X Games events.
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The top of the draft class is considered light on forwards and deep in defensemen.
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It's located in Ansley Mall fronting the Northeast Beltline Trail.
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Today that album scans as an interesting but uneven experiment; the music Shook is releasing under their own name hews much closer to the Lucinda-fronting-the-Replacements sound of the Disarmers.
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Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.
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The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
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“Facing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facing. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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