face the facts
Example Sentences
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"Everything's different about me. Just face the facts."
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2022
Death penalty states need to come clean about lethal injection’s flaws and face the facts of its troubled history.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2022
“It was just like, ‘Is it time to grow up, or is it just time to face the facts?
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021
“Let’s face the facts: Nobody has success in the playoffs without a complete team effort, and goaltending is a big part of that,” Carlyle said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2017
For I am, to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent than my liver.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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