How to Use fact from fiction in a Sentence

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  • So what’s fact from fiction, and where are the real people now?
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2024
  • One of the most important of these is the ability to tell fact from fiction.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Here’s a breakdown to help separate fact from fiction.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction.
    Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • Overall there are very few data showing the best way to teach children how to tell fact from fiction.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Discerning fact from fiction was a key component of her work.
    Niela Orr, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Our teams analyzed his comments to separate fact from fiction.
    Abc News, ABC News, 18 July 2024
  • The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in his dying father’s life.
    Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 15 July 2022
  • In part three, Matt and Jag had to separate fact from fiction in statements from and about their castmates.
    EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Evon has spent his career deciphering fact from fiction on social media.
    Tom Hanson, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Canola, sesame and other seed oils are getting a bad rap lately but a dietician separates the fact from fiction.
    Amy Brightfield, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The challenge for viewers will be to unravel fact from fiction when watching the Hollywood epic.
    Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The best way to sort fact from fiction is often to speak to the doctor who knows you and your medical history best, Westafer adds.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Trying to separate fact from fiction in her work can be exhausting, and some visitors may resent being toyed with for the sake of art.
    Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The first objective must be to meaningfully distinguish fact from fiction.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Dec. 2022
  • An unscripted true-crime series that presents both sides of a case directly from the victims and criminals and leaves the viewer to sort fact from fiction.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2022
  • Blanco has become such a mythic figure that the line separating fact from fiction soon becomes extremely murky.
    Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The difference today is that scientific research can help separate fact from fiction.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Now, with an emergence of new authors with new, modern day perspectives, the plots are thickening and some stories are almost too hard to separate fact from fiction.
    Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Mascia, whose job is separating fact from fiction, won't go so far as to call The Curse of the Bronze Lady a bunch of hooey.
    USA Today, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The simple thing to do would be to cross-reference the post with CNN’s own content, or any reputable news source, to discern fact from fiction.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Experts say these changes have undermined users’ ability to determine which accounts are credible and to separate fact from fiction.
    Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • However, the general population must first recognize fact from fiction and demand truth.
    Ziva Hallaji, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Newport-Mesa’s schools need the very best science curriculum so our students can distinguish fact from fiction when climate change is discussed and debated.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Some of it may be true -- that some of it is not exactly is announced at the start of every episode -- and perhaps you will be moved to do some independent reading on the subject to winnow fact from fiction.
    cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • By digging into the numbers, TIA has been able to sort out accounting fact from fiction in the latest reports posted on its website.
    Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Though the tasks focused on misinformation of a civic nature, the results suggest that teenagers may have a hard time telling fact from fiction in a variety of online situations.
    Kat McKim, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The South Korean public is mature enough to distinguish fact from fiction, an opposition party spokesman said.
    Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 3 May 2021
  • With readers struggling to separate fact from fiction, print media stands out as a symbol of credibility and legitimacy.
    Kelly Ehlers, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
  • But distinguishing fact from fiction takes work — and requires a level of reading comprehension that Americans are losing.
    Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026

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