face the facts
Example Sentences
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Disillusion warns her that the road to salvation is to face the facts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025
"Everything's different about me. Just face the facts."
From BBC • Aug. 25, 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
It looks as if the same shifts in perception, the same shifts in political discourse, are taking place everywhere, delayed or accelerated only by a country’s ability to face the facts.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020
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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