fact-checks

present tense third-person singular of fact-check

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-checks
Verb
  • Can fan edits drive engagement offline?
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Administration officials have gone through the legislation in depth, offering line edits and requesting technical changes, according to two officials with knowledge of the discussions between the White House and the Senate.
    Aamer Madhani, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • DaCosta both reveals and revises the story’s tragic dimension up front, opening with Hedda being questioned by the police about events that led to a certain consequential gunshot.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Physicists have observed that a proton’s excited states, or resonances, remain influential even when probed at very high energies, a finding that revises previous expectations about the building blocks of matter.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • To protect from equally discomforting interior water, Heimplanet reworks the ventilation system to boost airflow, even in heavy rain and wind conditions.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Harris’ team works and reworks an interim message for crowds at Howard University, then pulls her out of the speaking engagement altogether as the numbers sour.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Normally, the Commission redacts or refrains from publishing proprietary details.
    Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • When a customer calls, the system transcribes the conversation and redacts personal information before the information is shared with the AI assistant, Dunn said.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Democrats would then file a lawsuit, and the case winds up before the Supreme Court, which somehow reads the Twenty-second Amendment differently than it has been widely understood?
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
  • And sometimes, that reads even bigger than the numbers.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Since 2013, Romana has specialized in advanced restorative and cosmetic dentistry that corrects or restores or enhances smiles.
    Shawn Price, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Which is why receiving feedback, especially the kind that calls us out or corrects us, can be so difficult.
    Susanne Biro, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As a public health care district formed in 1984 to serve inland North County and a broad swath of eastern San Diego County, Palomar, like all public agencies, customarily publishes the text of its resolutions before its meetings to allow time for public review.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One lawsuit challenging Huntington Beach’s voter ID law is brought by the California attorney general’s office, and another is from Huntington Beach resident Mark Bixby, who publishes the Surf City Sentinel Facebook page.
    Claire Wang, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Fact-checks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-checks. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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