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face up to it

VERB
face the music
Synonyms
WEAK
be punished bite the bullet come to grips with face the facts face up to 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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Sounds like hyperbole, but that’s the truth: They face up to it.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2022

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

But elites had no appetite to face up to it.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2017

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