fact-check

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fact-check The new policy will put the onus on Face the Nation moderators to fact-check guests in real time. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025 Such communications also offer vital details when people die or are injured during interactions with police officers — allowing journalists to fact-check statements made by department leaders in their ensuing news releases. Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025 Always review and fact-check AI outputs before using them. 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 See All Example Sentences for fact-check
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
Verb
  • The department has also revised its deployment decision matrix during red flag conditions, allowing for earlier and heavier pre-deployment of resources when extreme winds, low humidity and high temperatures converge.
    Teresa Liu, Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which determined each year's nominees until they were deposed as the deciding committee in 2022 in the wake of a scandal, revised its rules around animation in 2014.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Condensed and edited by Rebecca Kilroy.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • For example, after a creature’s genome is sequenced, the huge mass of raw genetic data—consisting of millions or billions of genetic building blocks called base pairs—must be annotated.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The House and Senate will redraft Healey’s spending blueprint and debate their own versions, likely in April and May.
    State House News Service, Boston Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
  • For example, when the firm was completing its recent merger, his team created an agentic capability to redraft the bios of the incoming 1,600 attorneys, which needed to be updated to include the new firm’s information and match its existing writing style.
    Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Thankfully, this week's episode wasted no time in rectifying that, and the Croissants were unmasked at the top of the evening.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But Rams defensive lineman Kobie Turner said rectifying those mistakes is something that can be addressed on Sunday.
    Steve Reed, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The design reworks the Gel-Quantum 360 I AMP’s entire upper, stripping away the mesh and suede overlays for a nearly one-piece construction.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Last and First Tales is a collection of stories selected by the author, including some of his early writing and his more mature and celebrated work, some reworked into new versions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • All jurors' identities were redacted in court filings.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The law allows for some information to be redacted from the files in order to protect the identities of victims, among other circumstances.
    Connor Greene, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Cocchiaro recommends putting finished books on a a bookshelf elsewhere in your home or donating them once you're done reading them.
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Keep reading for more new arrivals from Kelly Clarkson’s home line.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026

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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.

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