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face

Definition for face

noun as in pretense, nerve

noun as in authority, status

Strongest match

image

Weak match

social position

verb as in be opposite; look at

Strongest matches

confront, meet, watch

Strong matches

border, front, gaze, glare, overlook, stare

verb as in put paint or finish on

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Meanwhile, the company faces restrictions on short-term rentals in some major cities, where officials argue that such arrangements take up available housing.

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The people whom Mr. Pack interviews include some familiar faces—current Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, for instance, and the ubiquitous historian Max Boot—but they are a uniformly articulate group.

Yet the city still faces a $33 million deficit going into next year.

You think you’re going to make him “the face of the Democratic Party,” in that stupid phrase, and everyone will hate Democrats and you’ll profit without even trying.

A moral universe without purgatory would be a thin, desiccated place: metaphysical reality flattened to nothing more than God and the individual soul that must, down the wearisome road, face some grim and final judgment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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