Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-checking
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Her spell as a journalist included editing BBC News at Six and senior roles on Newsnight and Panorama.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2026 -
All items are subject to editing for clarity and length.—
Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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And premiere projections are trending up, with BoxOfficePro estimating a $1-2 million open last week, but revising to $2-5 million this week.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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More Rework and Slower Cycles Supervisors and legal counsel are pulled into multiple review loops, revising letters that were previously quicker to finalize, with routine tasks sometimes taking longer than expected.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The team reworking Watson’s contract to take his 2026 salary-cap number from over $80 million to around $40 million seems a certainty at some point over the next month, which means Watson will be on the team because the Browns can’t afford to cut him and swallow that $80 million.—
Zac Jackson,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Aubade has also been reworking its storytelling.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
30 Jan. 2026
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Johnson and the lull after early record-breaking business Johnson’s early £35m signing came with the intention of rectifying the mistakes made in the summer window, which Glasner had publicly complained had not furnished him with a squad capable of competing on four fronts.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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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
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Researchers are counting on such advances to help power them in their grand quest of sequencing and annotating the world’s organisms.—
Glenn Zorpette,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Nov. 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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Then, in 2024 Chamadia started reading about a new class of injectable drugs making headlines abroad.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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But while Bass has taken a political hit following the Palisades fire, Zev Yaroslavsky, a former Los Angeles County supervisor and longtime political observer, cautioned against reading too much into approval ratings in a crowded field.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Rippon says the new study may be a step toward correcting that legacy.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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Braces were then tweaked over the following decades as scientists figured out how teeth moved, grew, and best reacted to smile-correcting technology.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
4 Feb. 2026
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Starbucks is revamping its Starbucks Rewards program, the company announced recently, with new perks for customers.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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In response to questions from reporters, a spokesperson for Hogsett said the administration met the requirements for the portal by revamping the city’s website in 2019.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Fact-checking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-checking. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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