- present participle of face.
facing
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England meet Croatia at Wembley on Thursday before facing the biggest test of their Uefa Nations League campaign when the play Spain in Madrid on Sunday.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The trend is part of what experts call a mass-scale creative heist facing artists -- from painters to musicians -- as AI extracts from their work without compensation or attribution, leaving them with little recourse.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
But it’s also because the AI trade is facing some stiff headwinds that heretofore it had largely avoided.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Among the top challenges facing the board of the $4.3 trillion chip maker is that it has no chairman and no succession plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
I roll so my back is facing her.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
The wooden bleachers and facings from those days still remain within the shell of a modern building.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
In exchange for room and board, he studied how to create stone facings for houses; the work entailed learning how to collect appropriate rocks and then fit them into the available spaces.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2017
Its impressive exterior features a Canadian-limestone façade and details such as copper roof lines, copper window facings, three-foot eaves, and stone walls.
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 12, 2014
Even their marble facings were carted away for building material.
From Time Magazine Archive
Afternoon, drilled: for two hours, the loading of the guns, and for another two, exercises in the fields, facings, wheelings, evolutions.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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