as in faced
to stand or sit with the face or front toward
the apartment complex fronts the ocean
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Recent Examples of fronted
The draft room will be fronted by executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf and vice president of player personnel Ryan Cowden on Saturday.
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Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Cuba faces an economic embargo, but in a globalized world there are many ways to get around or soften its effects, and the post-Castro regime fronted by President Miguel Diaz-Canel has shown little interest in doing so.
—Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
Its position on Rue de Temple is inconspicuous—set back and fronted with tinted, frosted windows—but behind its doors is a different story.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Firstly, there was a BBC pilot for The Easiest Quiz Show in the World fronted by podcast guest McCausland and secondly Who’s in the Band, a music talent search in development for ABC that counts Simon Cowell among its judges.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
This week, Rihanna fronted the cover of W Magazine in head-to-toe Dior.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
Model/Actriz, the hard-core band fronted by Cole Haden, is on a mission to make mosh pit slay.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
The K-pop star first fronted the Beats Solo Buds campaign in 2024, before headlining the Ruby Red Beats Solo 4 — Jennie Special Edition in 2025, a fiery, album-referencing style that sold out across Apple’s online stores in under 24 hours.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
Now Gordy was working with a local teen group, the Miracles, fronted by his close friend Smokey Robinson.
—Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Cuba faces an economic embargo, but in a globalized world there are many ways to get around or soften its effects, and the post-Castro regime fronted by President Miguel Diaz-Canel has shown little interest in doing so.
—Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
Its position on Rue de Temple is inconspicuous—set back and fronted with tinted, frosted windows—but behind its doors is a different story.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Firstly, there was a BBC pilot for The Easiest Quiz Show in the World fronted by podcast guest McCausland and secondly Who’s in the Band, a music talent search in development for ABC that counts Simon Cowell among its judges.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
This week, Rihanna fronted the cover of W Magazine in head-to-toe Dior.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
Model/Actriz, the hard-core band fronted by Cole Haden, is on a mission to make mosh pit slay.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
The K-pop star first fronted the Beats Solo Buds campaign in 2024, before headlining the Ruby Red Beats Solo 4 — Jennie Special Edition in 2025, a fiery, album-referencing style that sold out across Apple’s online stores in under 24 hours.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
Now Gordy was working with a local teen group, the Miracles, fronted by his close friend Smokey Robinson.
—Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fronted
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We are faced with a vastly more consequential version of a Catch-22.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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However — and this is significant — Buffett faced some years with huge losses.—
Terry Savage,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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This included the whole of California, Nevada, and Utah, southwest Wyoming, western Colorado, Arizona north of the Gila River, and the western portion of what is now New Mexico, bordered by the Rio Grande to the east.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Apr. 2026
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The six-story, 470,000-square-foot building, bordered by Eighth, Ninth, G and H streets, had long been derided by Sacramento Superior Court and city leaders as too obsolete, undersized, and unsafe to conduct court business.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Fronted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fronted. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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