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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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During a year’s moratorium, the county revised rules to ones considered fairly reasonable by everyone.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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The county is in the midst of revising its comprehensive plan with the aid of MKSK Consultants of Columbus, Ohio.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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In January, Moore acknowledged the fire after-action report was edited to reduce criticism of LAFD’s leadership.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Today’s edition of 5 Things AM was edited and produced by CNN’s Andrew Torgan.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
24 Feb. 2026
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The photo albums—handcrafted binders assembled over the course of five decades—are crammed with small prints glued to card stock and annotated in Richards’s cursive script.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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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
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The House and Senate will redraft Healey’s spending blueprint and debate their own versions, typically in April and May.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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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
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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 rectified an injustice prevailing before that date, which did not confer this status upon Native persons.—
Walter E Block,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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Board President Carol Kats asked Wednesday if there was a public timeline for if and when the technical issues would be rectified, but was told that there wasn’t.—
Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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Lander would be the overwhelming favorite to win that seat, which likely would be reworked as well to include more of his strongholds in Brooklyn and less of Manhattan.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
19 Feb. 2026
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The new contract reworks the final year of Murphy’s previous deal while also adding two more years.—
The Athletic MLB Staff,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Next to her was Epstein, and a second woman, who was also redacted from the picture.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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Lemus gave officers a brief statement that is redacted in the arrest affidavit.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2026
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the latest effort Friday to ensure that drivers meet the federal requirements to understand English well enough to read road signs and communicate with law enforcement officers.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Feb. 2026
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The infrastructure required for the laser-writing and microscope-reading process is currently designed for massive cloud providers and national archives.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026
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