fact-check

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Recent Examples of fact-check Newsom’s previous attempt to fact-check Trump during January’s wildfires fell flat as misinformation ran rampant on social media. Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 11 June 2025 Many of those posts have over a million views, and only a handful of them have been fact-checked with X’s community notes features. Sean Lyngaas, CNN Money, 10 June 2025 Not long after the election, Meta announced the end of its fact-checking system, and Twitter famously changed course immediately after being purchased by right-wing billionaire Elon Musk. Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025 All the reviews have been fact-checked for dramatic updates. Vogue, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for fact-check
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
Verb
  • At the rear the quad-lamp taillights remain, but the exhaust outlets and lower bumper are revised and have a more cohesive and upscale appearance.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The Senate bill also scales back or eliminates renewable energy tax breaks that have been in place since 2005 and revised and expanded a few times since then, including in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
    Tracy J. Wholf, CBS News, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • This edition of Forbes Daily was edited by Sarah Whitmire.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 July 2025
Verb
  • Unfortunately, the tool doesn't work with touch monitors for annotating with a stylus.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 28 May 2025
  • Drawing tools allow customers to annotate charts in real-time.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
  • My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • This involves figuring out and rectifying inconsistencies, standardizing data formats and enriching data, which is essential to improve its quality in the target Salesforce org.
    Vamsi Gosu, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • House Resolution 194 acknowledged the fundamental injustice of slavery and Jim Crow laws and expressed commitment to rectifying their lingering consequences.
    Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • The Senate is also still sorting through rulings over the weekend that threaten the bill’s filibuster protections: Efforts to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and to shift some SNAP aid to states are among the items getting urgently reworked.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 23 June 2025
  • The front fascia has been completely reworked and features a more prominent grille bookended by a pair of razor-thin headlights sitting atop large air scoops.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • The city, meanwhile, took two months to comply with a public records request from the Herald and, then, in an unusual move, initially released a version of Carr’s October report with passages redacted that the city attorney’s office acknowledged describe finds of human remains.
    Andres Viglucci July 4, Miami Herald, 4 July 2025
  • Queen’s original indictment redacted many key details about these events, including the identities of Woolman and Stovall, but subsequent reporting by The Tennessean led to additional Southwestern seminary public disclosures.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Like in New York’s Central Park, locals love to bring a blanket and sprawl on the springy turf, canoodling, reading books, and snoozing beneath the skyline.
    Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2025
  • But its recurring theme — Ed as a jealous interloper undermining owner Wilbur Post’s domestic life — can be read as a surreal meditation on masculinity, autonomy and repression in suburban America.
    Chris Reed, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025

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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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