the truth

noun

: the real facts about something : the things that are true
Are you telling (me) the truth?
At some point you have to face the simple/hard/honest/plain/naked truth that we failed.
Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

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Following Sayan’s path, Zhen travels to Japan to find out the truth and accepts her spiritual legacy. Jenny S. Li, Variety, 21 Sep. 2025 And very often politics doesn't tell the truth. ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025 Digging deeper, Georgia unravels a complex case entangled in mania, ritual and the occult, and her obsessive quest for the truth spirals into a nightmare that will put her family, career and sanity on the line. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2025 Many might disagree with this, but the truth is that once software support ends, your device becomes vulnerable to all kinds of unpatchable security flaws. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the truth

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“The truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20truth. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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