the fact is/remains

idiom

—used to stress that a statement is true and that its truth is not affected or changed by a previous statement

He may not have meant it, but the fact remains that he committed a crime.

The company has struggled recently, but the fact is that they are still making a profit.

Examples of the fact is/remains in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the fact is, these folks don’t want to hear answers. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Aug. 2025

But whatever outsiders may say and however Boone may feel about the comments, the fact is that nobody is playing sloppier baseball these days. —Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025

But the fact is an ideal media ecosystem is one in which audiences have reasonable access to both the highbrow and the lowbrow, the vast wasteland and the substantial. —Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025

That was certainly the case for decades, but the fact is that vodka has changed quite a bit in recent years. —Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 25 July 2025