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Recent Examples of fact-check
Always review and fact-check AI outputs before using them.
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Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My cohort is not John Oliver–level media personalities with PR teams, production crews, and a research staff to fact-check the punch lines.
—Jessica Yellin, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
His memory is selective, however, and Stolen also features law enforcement officials who fact-check his claims.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
That was part of a broader public pushback against social media companies that were uniquely employing different fact-check methods, notably during the COVID pandemic and surrounding major elections—especially the 2016 and 2020 presidential contests.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My cohort is not John Oliver–level media personalities with PR teams, production crews, and a research staff to fact-check the punch lines.
—Jessica Yellin, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
His memory is selective, however, and Stolen also features law enforcement officials who fact-check his claims.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
That was part of a broader public pushback against social media companies that were uniquely employing different fact-check methods, notably during the COVID pandemic and surrounding major elections—especially the 2016 and 2020 presidential contests.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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While a university panel ultimately concluded there was no ongoing problem in the department, the incident gained national prominence and prompted Columbia to revise its process for reviewing complaints against faculty.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
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The company had initially aimed to install 2,000 new stations this year, but later revised that to 1,800–2,000.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Oct. 2025
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Although a text-to-image generation tool primarily, users have been using it to edit photos, create figurines, and recreate old photographs.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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These are showcased alongside engravers’ prints and unpublished documents, such as preparatory Polaroids and test prints annotated by Avedon.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Instead of annotating the text in the margins, use removable sticky notes to record your favorite quotes and thoughts.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Sep. 2025
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Unless otherwise noted, all stats are tailored to redraft, half-PPR, 1-QB leagues, and ADPs are via Fantasy Football Calculator. Figure out a way to acquire Chase Brown Few players have drawn preseason praise like Bengals RB Chase Brown.—
Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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If ballot language is struck down in court, Hoskins will get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 Aug. 2025
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The Nigerian Supreme Court finally has a chance to rectify this injustice.—
Sean Nelson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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North Texas’ defense was at or near the bottom of the conference each of the last two years, but Morris hired former Sam Houston defensive coordinator Skyler Cassity, who seems to have rectified the issue as the Mean Green are currently third in the conference in yards allowed per game.—
Sam Khan Jr,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Player movement has also been reworked, allowing actions to be faster and more responsive, along with more convincing physics.—
Jeffrey L. Wilson,
PC Magazine,
7 Oct. 2025
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Instead of dividing the company into women’s, men’s and kid’s, Donahoe’s strategy to drive lifestyle sales, Hill is reworking the corporate structure so the company’s departments are focused on individual sports.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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Westman is not named in the documents, which were redacted in accordance with Minnesota state law.—
Michael Dorgan , Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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The identities of the deputies, apart from Fatherley, are redacted in court documents.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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Children…who had previously not read for pleasure are standing in line at bookstores and libraries to get the next book in the series.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Oct. 2025
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Faithful to tradition, the festival’s 800 volunteers were feted with a walk-around the concert hall to the sound of a brass band, before guests were invited to the stage to officially open the festival by reading a sentence in unison – a joyous cacophony that drew complicit laughter from the crowd.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
12 Oct. 2025
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