Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-checked
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Today’s edition of 5 Things AM was edited and produced by CNN’s Andrew Torgan.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026 -
Our conversation has been edited and condensed.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
18 Feb. 2026
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The production is being revised following the ÖFI Plus cuts but the film will likely still shoot in Austria.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised down prior payroll estimates by 898,000 jobs between April 2024 and March 2025.—
Benzinga,
Freep.com,
14 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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After sequencing, the mass of fragmented genetic data must be assembled into a complete genome sequence and then that complete sequence must be manually verified, in a process called curation, and then annotated.—
Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 2025
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The menu has been entirely reworked at Social Desiii, and encompasses a range of cuisines from across India.—
Jacob Wilt,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
16 Feb. 2026
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The current bonding program that is supposed to cover the plugging costs needs to be reworked.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The housing-affordability crisis today is the result of government error and will be rectified.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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One popular strain of urban-policy thinking opposes gentrification—the arrival of affluent people into poor neighborhoods—and argues that poverty should be rectified by ever greater expenditure on public housing.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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Some violations were corrected during the inspection.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
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The report was riddled with fake citations that appeared to be hallucinated by AI, which the White House attributed to formatting errors; HHS then corrected the report by removing the false citations and swapping in new references.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
13 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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While some names and sections are redacted in versions released by the DOJ, the publicly available memos do not allege that Wexner committed any crimes.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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Goldberg went on to explain that her name appears in emails between Jeffrey Epstein and a person whose name has been redacted.—
Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
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