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Recent Examples of factoid
Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Impress a dad with that factoid at your next barbecue.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
People love to throw this factoid around.
—Vivian Tu, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
As a factoid, that is perhaps unsurprising considering Welsh’s popularity in the Scottish capital, which is also his hometown.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2025
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Impress a dad with that factoid at your next barbecue.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
People love to throw this factoid around.
—Vivian Tu, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
As a factoid, that is perhaps unsurprising considering Welsh’s popularity in the Scottish capital, which is also his hometown.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
Noun
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Another common misconception involves the meaning of remission.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
13 Mar. 2026
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The biggest misconception is that the commission at issue was created, imposed or newly introduced by the Tax Collector’s Office.—
Abbey Ajayi,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In that sense, Chinatown carries its own poetic legacy, the myth that deserves to endure.—
Xuan Juliana Wang,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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With music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in a post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the Great Depression and New Orleans.—
Sigal Ratner-Arias,
Billboard,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What are some Friday the 13th superstitions?—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
12 Mar. 2026
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Male medical professionals then, having read Hippocrates, knew the basics about how menstruation worked, yet superstition, prejudice, and misinformation circulated largely unchecked.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This, of course, was a fallacy, and months later, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia and quickly moved beyond.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Mar. 2026
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Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the Oakland days, there was less margin for error.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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For seasoned pickleball players, finding the best paddle for competitive play may require a series of trial-and-error attempts, but a little education about paddle types can also go a long way.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of fiction.—
Lilliam Rivera,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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While this may confine a human’s dream of immortality to solutions that rely on technological enhancements, bio-hacking your body, or science-fiction level technology that relies on novel physical laws and/or phenomena, there’s still plenty that relativity has to say about living forever.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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We were lied on in our statement and lied on again, and even in the apology, there was untruth.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
20 Feb. 2026
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His newest book makes such fact-finding a key theme, demonstrating the instability of a political system grounded in untruth—and investigating how populist leaders can wield that for their own ends.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The idea that the Iranian regime’s policies might change for the better simply by appointing a more pliable leader, as in Venezuela, is a delusion.—
Elan Journo,
Oc Register,
10 Mar. 2026
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The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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