face out
Britishverb
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to endure (trouble)
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to defy or act boldly in spite of (criticism, blame, etc)
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Also (esp US and Canadian): face down. to cause to concede by a bold stare
Example Sentences
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A boy, his face out of focus, is walking toward you.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
"I couldn't get her face out of my head," she says now about the baby she handed over to nurses on that winter's night.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2022
Music mogul Kanye West is set to acquire the social media website Parler, according to its parent company, putting a new face out front for the tech platform that has attracted a conservative audience.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
I browse Skylight Books with classmates, and we turn our professor’s titles face out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
The process is almost absurdly laborious—like sculpting a face out of a million silhouettes—but it works: piece by piece, a set of two-dimensional images can be transmuted into a three-dimensional form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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