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• The price depends on the seats, but they are sold at face value.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2024
• Its fans certainly like to take a LOT things at face value.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2024
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss want to give fans, not scalpers, the best chance to buy tickets at face value.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
• Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
  — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2023
• Now, a 10 percent failure rate may not seem so bad at face value.
  — Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
• Shroff urged jurors not to take his remarks at face value.
  — Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
• Your best bet to get seats to one of the 24 shows at face value is going through Ticketmaster.
  — John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2023
• But a ground invasion might not even happen if the IDF is to be taken at face value.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2023
• Research, talk to your peers, and don’t take trending headlines at face value.
  — Art Zeile, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• Taken only at face value, the contract might seem like the big issue.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2023
• No one should have taken their promises at face value to begin with.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The business case for inclusion, at face value, can seem like a harder sell.
  — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
• The research paper from three weeks ago seemed to take Shor’s algorithm at face value.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2023
• While scalpers try to turn a profit on the musical event of the summer, three Swifties are working to get tickets to fans at face value.
  — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 8 June 2023
• The world over the rainbow is just too surreal and strange to ever be taken at face value — it’s got to mean something.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
• Get to know the stories and acknowledge them at face value in an equitable way.
  — Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 6 Feb. 2025
• Taken at face value, the story of Stellar Blade is fine, if tedious.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2024
• But if the new teaser for The Morning Show’s season 3 teaser can be taken at face value, there’s even more at stake.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• Yet as our time testing it in and around Austin, Tex., showed, that output figure shouldn’t be taken at face value.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2024
• But the data can be difficult to take at face value, city and state officials say.
  — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
• Some physicists and philosophers have taken the statement at face value.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2023
• Some tickets are distributed to NFL teams, or sold at face value to players, coaches and others tied to the sport.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Fans who purchase tickets and are unable to go will also be able to resell their seat at face value.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
• And while Moore doesn’t appear to be in an evident state of decline, that doesn’t mean her version of events can be taken at face value.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
• As for Liz O’Driscoll, having been conned out of £200, someone overheard her story and was able to sort out two tickets at face value for the game against Villa.
  — James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
• Instead, it’s taken at face value and becomes a runaway hit.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Read more Keep scrolling Buying Taylor Swift tickets at face value?
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• These peace plans can be taken at face value, as the countries that advance them may genuinely want to help secure peace.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
• Robinson, by not taking the words of Scripture at face value, makes her case for God’s enduring covenant with creation.
  — Joan Taylor, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2024
• The order was bad enough at face value, designed to vilify and terrify trans people under the guise of protecting women.
  — Ilyse Hogue, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 10 Mar 2025