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come face to face with

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come face to face with someone
to suddenly meet someone by chance. As I was going into the restaurant, I came face to face with my ex-husband who was just leaving.
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come face to face with something

to see or experience a problem for the first time. It was only after I started working for the charity that I came face to face with poverty.
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I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
But somehow or other, when I come face to face with the women, my practice (I own) is not conformable.
 
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