face up to it
Example Sentences
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"And I also quite liked the period where me and my close collaborators knew that this was probably it, or this was it, but hadn't had to face up to it in the world."
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
Sounds like hyperbole, but that’s the truth: They face up to it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
Suddenly I had a past, and I had to face up to it.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2013
"That is how serious the situation is; the club has run out of cash and the directors have to face up to it," he said.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
We may as well face up to it: there is a highly visible difference between the pace of basic science and the application of new knowledge to human problems.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
