How to Use face value in a Sentence
face value
noun
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The group has wiped out debt with a face value of more than $5.3 billion.
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Jeff Amy,
USA TODAY,
28 Oct. 2021
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Scharf sold the credit checks on eBay for as low as 50% of face value.
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Shannon Prather,
Star Tribune,
4 Dec. 2020
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But the real smooth-brained move is to take memes at face value.
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Cecilia D'anastasio,
Wired,
24 Nov. 2020
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At face value, the world of Pandora should be too big to fail.
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Lauren Puckett-Pope,
ELLE,
17 Dec. 2022
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Note the question mark, though: That means that the clue should not be taken at face value.
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Deb Amlen,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2023
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But do those costs add up to the 20% above face value that ATRs are permitted to charge?
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David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2021
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One way to stop a careless remark is to take it at face value.
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Washington Post,
22 Sep. 2020
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Today’s scalpers use bots to game the system and charge double the face value, or more.
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Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
30 Sep. 2024
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And Welser-Most was right: the third movement could not be taken at face value.
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Zachary Lewis,
cleveland,
31 Jan. 2020
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Bryson says to avoid taking these claims at face value.
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Simon Hill,
WIRED,
28 Sep. 2022
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Companies will be able to claim 90% of the face value of the credit, with the payout stretched over five years.
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Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
27 June 2023
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The peso has dropped by 30% in the past 12 months, and the country’s dollar bonds trade at less than half their face value.
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The Economist,
5 Sep. 2019
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Buy an old bond issued when yields were higher, and the price will be above face value.
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James MacKintosh,
WSJ,
23 June 2019
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Service fees can add as much as 32 percent to the face value of a ticket.
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George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 May 2024
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In other words, the face value of the coin is so much lower than the value of the metal inside.
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Brad Auerbach,
SPIN,
8 Sep. 2022
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On face value those might not seem like big numbers, says Marr.
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Peter Lane Taylor,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2021
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Those numbers sound like good news, at least at face value.
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Nicole Goodkind,
CNN,
30 Sep. 2022
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Up to this time, the Chinese and Mongols had taken us at face value.
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National Geographic,
30 June 2020
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PwC seems to have taken his reply at face value and put the issue aside.
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Ben Hallman,
Quartz Africa,
19 Jan. 2020
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In the meantime, viewers are left to take what the company says at face value.
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Angela Watercutter,
Wired,
19 Nov. 2021
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But most researchers take the work of Bell, Clauser, Aspect, Zeilinger and their teams at face value.
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Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
4 Oct. 2022
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The fund sold century bonds with a face value of $500 million.
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Anna Hirtenstein,
WSJ,
6 Oct. 2022
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The movie's title is not supposed to be taken at face value.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2022
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At the time, they were largely accepted at face value and sold well.
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Alex Palmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Mar. 2021
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Though cautious to take things at face value, You fans couldn't hide their shock at every glimpse.
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Jacqueline Saguin,
Good Housekeeping,
18 Feb. 2023
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Thus, the moral of this story is that no one should ever take what Amazon does at face value.
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Chris Walton,
Forbes,
28 Jan. 2022
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The face value is also referred to as the par value or the principal.
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Chris Taylor,
wsj.com,
7 Nov. 2023
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Shroff urged jurors not to take his remarks at face value.
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Jennifer Peltz,
ajc,
8 Feb. 2023
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So when choosing a UCaaS provider, don’t take anything at face value.
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PCMAG,
29 Nov. 2022
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Within an hour of the pre-sale, tickets appeared on re-selling sites for triple the face value.
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Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
1 Sep. 2024
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