Facing
Facing noun - An ornamental coating to a building.
Shortly before and facing are semantically related In some cases you can use "Shortly before" instead a preposition "Facing".
Shortly before
Facing and shortly before are semantically related in near topic. Sometimes you can use "Facing" instead a preposition phrase "Shortly before".
Both terms in one sentence
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In "Tip of the Spear", otherwise a Drought Level of Doom, you get a Revenant and a Plasma Launcher shortly before facing a pair of Hunters and a pair of Wraiths.
Source: Suspicious Videogame Generosity -
Black Bug Room: Shortly before facing the final boss of the two-game series (including Playable Epilogue), Ambrosia gets separated from her party, and faced with her evil half taunting her.
Source: Video Game / Oracle of Tao -
Just like somebody else Jackie Earle Haley played... Shortly before facing her in Chapter 10, Reborn Laura can be seen crawling across the other side of a window, in a very similar manner to the first Licker appearance in Resident Evil 2.
Source: Video Game / The Evil Within
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