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The phrase "faced with reality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where someone must confront the truth or the actual circumstances of a matter.
Example: "After months of denial, she was finally faced with reality and had to make a decision about her future."
Alternatives: "confronted with the truth" or "dealing with the facts."
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Right now, I'm faced with reality".
But when faced with reality, he sensibly reconsiders or is forced to recognise that spending cuts can sometimes undermine public provision.
Then, about two-thirds of the way through, she wakes up and is faced with reality: she is a failed actress who has been dumped by her lover and is working as a waitress.
On Channel 7's The X Factor you can see it on the contestants' faces: the belief they can sing, their eyes clouded by a self-deluding pestilential mist — known as the Fog of Cowell — before being faced with reality by judge Redfoo and company that they sound worse than a recently harpooned whale gurgling its last notes on an outcrop of sharp rocks.
The greatest challenge to the contingent valuation method is whether responses to hypothetical questions were representative of respondents' actual payment behavior when faced with reality (hypothetical versus actual payment), or how well did hypothetical WTP predict what people were actually willing to pay.
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"Of course, you can never come face to face with reality — it is unknowable — but you can grab a solid substance, something".
But American workers are filled with anxiety because they understand that disaster can result when theory comes face to face with reality.
They blurt from my mouth almost as quickly as Peter's as soon as I'm faced with the reality of brokenness and sin in our world.
But faced with that reality, Godsey hedged.
The theory seems especially inadequate when faced with the reality.
Faced with this reality, many states have liberally extended the age for filing civil lawsuits.
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