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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It was produced by James Sneed, edited by Marianne McCune, fact-checked by Sierra Juarez, and engineered by Jimmy Keeley.
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Sonari Glinton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
The notebook includes not just copies of letters in the Watkins papers but Virginia’s meticulous record of her fact-checking and her correspondence with Polly about the book’s success, spin-offs, sequels, and other projects carrying on to Polly’s death in 1962.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Cohen did give the now-former mayor a single prop, while bulldozing Cooper’s futile fact-checking attempts.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2026
The steel frame was the structure of reporting and research and editing and fact-checking and legal checking.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
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Sonari Glinton, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
The notebook includes not just copies of letters in the Watkins papers but Virginia’s meticulous record of her fact-checking and her correspondence with Polly about the book’s success, spin-offs, sequels, and other projects carrying on to Polly’s death in 1962.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Cohen did give the now-former mayor a single prop, while bulldozing Cooper’s futile fact-checking attempts.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2026
The steel frame was the structure of reporting and research and editing and fact-checking and legal checking.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact-check. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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