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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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2
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
Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Arriving troopers located a black Honda HR-V facing in a south on the property of 167 Wauregan Road (Route 12) and a Honda Accord facing north in the northbound lane of Route 12, according to the warrant affidavit for Leblanc’s arrest.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Her team, down seven and facing its largest deficit of the night, went from smiling and finding easy buckets to straight-faced and struggling to find a rhythm.
—Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
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Both are honored on the club’s Wall of Fame on the red-brick facing of San Francisco’s Oracle Park.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 12 Mar. 2025
Arriving troopers located a black Honda HR-V facing in a south on the property of 167 Wauregan Road (Route 12) and a Honda Accord facing north in the northbound lane of Route 12, according to the warrant affidavit for Leblanc’s arrest.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
—Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
Her team, down seven and facing its largest deficit of the night, went from smiling and finding easy buckets to straight-faced and struggling to find a rhythm.
—Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
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The world’s multilateral architecture is the best mechanism humanity has for confronting existential transnational threats.—
Allison Carnegie,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2024
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Any return to play in England would entail Henderson confronting the subject again.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
23 Dec. 2024
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April 3 after a resident in the 9400 block of Parkside Avenue reported encountering an armed individual in his backyard.—
Dennis Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2025
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Today, vaccine coverage is widespread enough that unvaccinated children can easily live to adulthood without ever encountering the virus, but not uniformly high enough to prevent outbreaks altogether.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2025
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Agents have consistently been seen wearing face coverings and have faced allegations of excessive force.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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The store posted surveillance footage showing a group of people wearing hoodies and face coverings breaking in.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
9 Aug. 2025
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The teams played to a 0-0 draw in front of a crowd that appeared to be at half capacity, with stronger numbers in the venue before the initial start time was pushed back.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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This process can be in a rehearsal or class/workshop setting, or it can be done publicly, live in front of an audience.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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Today 30 species fly freely throughout Pelican Island and the surrounding archipelagos off the coast of Vero Beach.—
Kara Franker,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2025
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In another court challenge, the drama surrounding beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting significantly ramped up this week.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Our top picks for children's life insurance include Aflac, one of the few companies with term life policies for children, and Foresters Financial, which has a Bright Future Children's policy that pays out up to $75,000.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
15 Aug. 2025
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The DreamCloud Premier King has a super cozy cashmere top and seven decadent layers of adaptive support.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
15 Aug. 2025
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Within individual river catchments, changes such as clearing native land cover for agriculture or urbanization alters how precipitation moves into river corridors and can either increase or decrease the size and return interval of floods.—
Ellen Wohl
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 2025
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The pop star also wore a push-up bra top made of glittering rhinestones — while giving the camera a sultry look from inside a tub of water, face full of makeup — for the album's main cover.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Facing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facing. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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