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face out

verb

  1. to endure (trouble)

  2. to defy or act boldly in spite of (criticism, blame, etc)

  3. Also (esp US and Canadian): face downto cause to concede by a bold stare

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"Becoming a celebrity, having your face out there and being in front of the camera… There's another layer of self-consciousness that kicks in."

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Two will face out to the field on a 45-degree angle, and the other lined up inward to get a photo of the ball going through.

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Primed from his institutionalized childhood to seek a protector, he does the bidding of Phineas Drummond, his white partner with “a face out of the funny pages” and a bad case of PTSD.

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Pat Sand, a 57-year-old from Marcus, Iowa, who was wearing a Trump campaign hat and button, said Trump’s use of his mug shot on merchandise, including on Christmas-themed items, “puts the name and the face out there, good or bad.”

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“But hell, we have a hard job as well. You can’t make it harder by throwing holding and hands to the face out the rulebook. I got a lot of respect for those guys, but we get scrutinized for the plays that we don’t make. So, someone has to hold them accountable for the plays or the calls they don’t make.”

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