How to Use fact-check in a Sentence

fact-check

verb
  • Macron just grabbed Trump’s arm and fact-checked him to his face in real time.
    Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Any fact-checks will be weighed against moments where there were none at all.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • There’s no way to fact-check the secrets; Frank takes those sharing them at their word.
    Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But the beliefs of the faithful live in an arena beyond a fact-check.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Heinrich drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump’s claims.
    David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The fact-check notes that Meta still doesn’t operate in China.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The athlete said that his father would come across crazy tabloid stories from time to time and call him to fact-check.
    Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Meta is rolling this out in the US first; elsewhere, the fact-checking system will remain.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    Chris Mueller, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 13 June 2023
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His campaign opposed the condition set by CBS News that his responses would be fact-checked.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • One of her sources, an ethnic Chinese man who calls himself Atticus, says Chai sometimes contacted him well past midnight, fact-checking details.
    Wenxin Fan, NPR, 11 Apr. 2025

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