1
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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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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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
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
In addition, the NWS issued a beach hazards statement through late Wednesday night for Pacific coast beaches, especially for south and southwest facing beaches.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Jen Murphy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Make sure the shiny, reflective side is facing out.
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
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Noun
What challenges is the co-living industry facing?
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Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
17 June 2026
In addition, the NWS issued a beach hazards statement through late Wednesday night for Pacific coast beaches, especially for south and southwest facing beaches.
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Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Verb
Earlier this year, Thailand's luxe Chiva-Som Hua Hin Health Resort lowered the age for its multigen wellness offerings from 16 to 14, to better support adolescents facing pressures that previous generations did not experience.
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Jen Murphy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 June 2026
Make sure the shiny, reflective side is facing out.
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
26 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for facing
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The same gateway sits in front of Model Context Protocol servers, the standard way agents now discover and call tools.
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Europeans will also be keen to put on a unified front publicly, particularly over defense spending, according to Franke.
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Several streets bordering the venue are expected to be closed, according to permits Swift filed, the New York Times reported.
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Earlier this month, the county Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a measure aimed at ensuring that the thousands of empty lots in unincorporated Altadena and Sunset Mesa, a small residential enclave bordering Pacific Palisades, are not left untended.
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Business leaders, policymakers, researchers, and educators are confronting questions as consequential as those faced 250 years ago.
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Authorities plan to shut down streets, airspace and daily life in Tehran as mourners commemorate the life of Khamenei, who led Iran for decades with an iron fist while confronting the West.
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Not feeding the hungry, not tending to the sick, not clothing the naked, not welcoming the refugee.
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This is like inviting a homeless person into your home, sheltering them, feeding them, clothing them, educating them, and having that person's confidant leak that the newly comfortable person doesn't think less of you.
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Here, Amer plays a fictional version of himself, a Palestinian refugee who is trying to get legal status while encountering personal and professional roadblocks at every turn.
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Conditions can shift rapidly, even in summer, with climbers encountering ice, rockfall and limited visibility within hours.
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The matter was not on the city’s agenda but was brought on as a walk-on item at the top of the meeting.
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On the subsequent rebound, the ball found Kovačić at the top of the box, but his right-footed volley was barely deflected over the net by Diogo Costa.
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It's located in Ansley Mall fronting the Northeast Beltline Trail.
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Today that album scans as an interesting but uneven experiment; the music Shook is releasing under their own name hews much closer to the Lucinda-fronting-the-Replacements sound of the Disarmers.
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Even still, most of its diminutive size was just plastic packaging, encasing the far tinier, unfathomably dense network of billions of transistors embedded in silicon.
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The 360-degree curved glass walls encasing the galleries offered many glimpses of a face that belonged to me but somehow wasn’t mine.
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“Facing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/facing. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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