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face the facts

VERB

face the music

Synonyms

WEAK

be punished bite the bullet come to grips with face up to face up to it 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

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The reality swirled and stuck and froze like the snow outside Ball Arena on a night when the Lakers were forced to face the facts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024

"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

“The pacifist is roundly scolded for refusing to face the facts and for retiring into his own world of sentimental desire,” Bourne wrote.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

For I am, to face the facts squarely, considerably less intelligent than my liver.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

face the facts

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