to face; to confront

Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.

I'm the type who gets nervous in front of people, so I'm bad at speech making.

He succeeded in the face of great difficulties.

Coming face to face with a dinosaur was a funny experience.

Insurance makes us remember that the world we live in isn't completely safe; we might fall ill, face danger or encounter the unexpected.