fact-check
verb
fact-checked; fact-checking; fact-checks
: to verify the factual accuracy of
fact-check the article before publication
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Rudd's July appearance on the Take Off Your Shoes podcast circulated widely enough online that the fact-checking website Snopes even published an article that month debunking the claim that Rudd was seriously injured in the coffee-spilling incident featured on the episode.
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Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
In other words, use it to brainstorm trip ideas and travel inspo, but don’t head out before fact-checking the most important details first.
—Evie Carrick, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026
Sources Emily Kay Votruba has copy edited and fact-checked for national magazines, websites, and books since 1997, including Self, GQ, Gourmet, Golf Magazine, Outside, Cornell University Press, Penguin Random House, and Harper's Magazine.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Jan. 2026
It was produced by James Sneed, edited by Marianne McCune, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Jimmy Keeley.
—Sonari Glinton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
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Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
In other words, use it to brainstorm trip ideas and travel inspo, but don’t head out before fact-checking the most important details first.
—Evie Carrick, Outside, 8 Jan. 2026
Sources Emily Kay Votruba has copy edited and fact-checked for national magazines, websites, and books since 1997, including Self, GQ, Gourmet, Golf Magazine, Outside, Cornell University Press, Penguin Random House, and Harper's Magazine.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 7 Jan. 2026
It was produced by James Sneed, edited by Marianne McCune, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Jimmy Keeley.
—Sonari Glinton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fact-check
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact-check. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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