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face up to it



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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

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

Suddenly I had a past, and I had to face up to it.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2013

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


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