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The phrase "are facing down" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an object or person that is oriented with the front or top side directed towards the ground.
Example: "The cards are facing down on the table, waiting to be flipped over."
Alternatives: "are turned down" or "are oriented downwards".
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Once again, they are facing down brutality.
Parents footing the bill for tuition this fall are facing down a perfect storm of ugliness.
But many consumers are facing down error-riddled credit files and don't know where to begin.
The soldiers of the great democracies are facing down fascists who throw acid in the faces of women in and shoot teachers who educate girls.
Either the circuit dies are facing up, resulting in a face-to-face bonding between the transducer arrays and the three dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC), or the 3D IC dies are facing down, resulting a face-to-back connection.
Religious censorship Undaunted by the righteous Christian fury that their acquisition of the Kevin Smith satire Dogma has already provoked, the Weinsteins of Miramax are facing down the full force of religious ire as the American Catholic League plunges into the fray.
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These were football hooligans they were facing down.
You may be facing down all three of these bills.
Now she was facing down a famous psychoanalyst.
She was facing down the religious right, which is not something many people attempt in Pakistan.
The main challenge will be facing down one other giant.
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