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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"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."
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Titles were displayed face out, so there were only 6,000 of them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
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 tell her that he hates when we talk about her, that he cuts her face out of all our family pictures, and that he thinks me wanting to go to Sunridge is her idea.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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