face up (to)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for face up (to)
Verb
  • Marvel’s Luke Cage, fronted by Mike Colter, bowed in September 2016 and flexed its muscle for two seasons, while Marvel’s Iron Fist, with Finn Jones in the title role of Danny Rand, launched in March 2017 and (somehow) also lasted two seasons.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • She’s fronted a jewelry campaign for Pasquale Bruni and multiple campaigns for Guess.
    Mikelle Street, WWD, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • On the internet, you are confronted with different perspectives on reality.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Then, in November, with the election of Donald Trump and the Republicans’ return to power in Congress, the question of how best to respond to opioid-use disorder was confronted with new uncertainty.
    Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That experience, and the new reality trans people will face under this order, are the tangible reflections of what may seem to others to be a mere letter on a page.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Most of those schools have not yet faced any consequences for failing to boost their secular education.
    Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • How can breast cancer support groups help patients and survivors?
    Sam Manzella, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Advertisement Cronin doesn’t feel like a marathoner who has breasted the tape so much as one in the middle of a race.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
Verb
  • Sandy Liang Emhoff braved the cold at Sandy Liang, layering a puff-sleeve baby-doll dress over baggy light wash jeans.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
  • George Clooney braved the New York City cold on Thursday, Feb. 7 for one very special reason.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • In one incident, a male cop at Harlem’s 32nd Precinct dared a male detective to drink the express milk a sergeant had just pumped.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The shoes at the show were just as eye-catching as the hats, so large that some models didn’t dare to walk down the stairs to the end of the runway but rather strutted right to the edge of the stairwell—maybe a nod to the storyline of Dracula’s muses not being able to escape.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Face up (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/face%20up%20%28to%29. Accessed 26 Feb. 2025.

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