face the facts

VERB

face the music

Synonyms

WEAK

be punished bite the bullet come to grips with face up to face up to it grin and bear it look square in the eye make one's bed and lie on it pay the piper swallow the pill take one's lumps take one's medicine take the consequences

Example Sentences

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face the facts

Disillusion warns her that the road to salvation is to face the facts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

"Everything's different about me. Just face the facts."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022

Death penalty states need to come clean about lethal injection’s flaws and face the facts of its troubled history.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2022

“It was just like, ‘Is it time to grow up, or is it just time to face the facts?

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

For I am, to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent than my liver.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas