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Recent Examples of facedown
These three brave men have come to fight for the future of Australian agriculture, to face down a foe the Australian army has never faced before.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
Skeleton: lying face down, one’s chin inches off the frozen surface, while sledding head first along a curving ice chute at nearly ninety miles per hour.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
Fiala was placed face down on a stretcher and his left leg appeared to be in an air cast as he was wheeled out.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
DeKalb County officers ignored his gasping for breath and loaded him face down into a police vehicle, lawyers said.
—Samantha Hogan, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
Skeleton: lying face down, one’s chin inches off the frozen surface, while sledding head first along a curving ice chute at nearly ninety miles per hour.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026
Fiala was placed face down on a stretcher and his left leg appeared to be in an air cast as he was wheeled out.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
DeKalb County officers ignored his gasping for breath and loaded him face down into a police vehicle, lawyers said.
—Samantha Hogan, AJC.com, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for facedown
Adverb
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True was in her office inside the restaurant shortly after the lunch rush Monday afternoon when a customer came in and said the Chinese restaurant a couple doors down was on fire.—
Jenna Ebbers,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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The $10 general admission during the Lilac Festival on weekends includes petting zoo, lilac maze, hoe down & jug band shows, lawn games, and lilac viewing.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Tenkan-sen is below the Kijun-sen, with both lines sloping downward.—
Karl Montevirgen,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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By systematically applying color to sections of these overlapping forms, Bettina seemed to punch upward and drill downward through the dense honeycomb, creating a sense of three-dimensional space on the page.—
Katherine Rochester,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The car landed in the water below.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Native trees like palo verde, ironwood and mesquite provide valuable shade from the sun’s harsh rays for plants growing below.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Facedown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facedown. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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