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What is a face-off?

What is a face-off? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A confrontation or argument between two people or groups
  2. (ice hockey) The start of play, when two players try to get control of the puck dropped by the referee
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People may disagree about the candidates' performances, but many found the face-off to be livelier and less scripted than they expected.
The match was watched by Keith Hill, who dropped the puck at the first face-off to begin the game.
In practice the outcome of the indirect face-off between the Government and the opposition depends solely on the will of the Chief Prosecutor.
He said the referee had dropped the puck to start the face-off when two other opposing players had started to fight.
Two leading national education experts will be here to debate the issue of choice in our face-off.
We'll have two professors here to debate that in our face-off tomorrow evening.

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