face up to it
Example Sentences
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They don’t bury the truth, they face up to it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2022
“You just have to force yourself to face up to it and do it. You have to pull up your socks and do what you were hired to do.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021
And because of his charismatic public persona and popularity it seemed easier, and less traumatic, to suppress what had happened, than face up to it.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2018
I will sit still with the silence and the fear, and face up to it.
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2016
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
