as in accuracy
agreement with fact or reality
there is no truth to the rumor that the couple is getting a divorce
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Recent Examples of truth
Many of us journalists enter this industry with lofty ideals about uncovering truth and holding power accountable.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
But the museum also tries to balance these hard truths with a sense of hopefulness.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
In her 1999 classic, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry argued that spontaneous glimpses of beauty are what inspire in ordinary people the pursuit of truth and justice.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
But the museum also tries to balance these hard truths with a sense of hopefulness.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
In her 1999 classic, On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry argued that spontaneous glimpses of beauty are what inspire in ordinary people the pursuit of truth and justice.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
The servants of this democratic republic’s machinery are, in truth, nothing but members of a mafia set up to plunder the island’s riches—and the West is complicit, with its own interests in the riches underground, in the ocean, from the soil.
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
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Results will show whether the tool improves the accuracy of the reading, Lee said — as well as whether the radiologist tends to let AI scores trump their own expertise.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Richardson was the fourth overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft but came into the season as the Colts’ backup quarterback after struggling with injuries and accuracy in his first two seasons in the league.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Aiming to ensure cultural authenticity, Globo will provide creative guidance to accurately reflect Brazilian culture and traditions, including the country’s unique celebration of Christmas, which takes place during Brazil’s summer.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
12 Oct. 2025
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Thank you, Diane, for reminding us that authenticity never goes out of fashion.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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This new discipline borrowed features from philology and belles lettres—period specialization and close reading, respectively—but abjured their emphasis on facticity and appreciation in favor of a new goal: interpretation.—
Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
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Caruth’s determination to cleave simultaneously to the idea both that the traumatic memory is the only historic fact the individual possesses and that this facticity remains incapable of adequate representation is paradoxical bordering on the perverse.—
Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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