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Recent Examples of factoid
Interesting factoid #4: There are more people collecting Social Security benefits today (57.3 million) than there were in the entire labor force 90 years ago.
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Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The perfect, humanizing factoid to draw chuckles from reporters and likes on social media.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Hagen shares factoids and stories about where the Eras Tour ringleader has frequented, dined and been seen out with friends.
—Bryan West, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The perfect, humanizing factoid to draw chuckles from reporters and likes on social media.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
The perfect, humanizing factoid to draw chuckles from reporters and likes on social media.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
Hagen shares factoids and stories about where the Eras Tour ringleader has frequented, dined and been seen out with friends.
—Bryan West, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
The perfect, humanizing factoid to draw chuckles from reporters and likes on social media.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for factoid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
Noun
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At the root of the underinvestment problem is a lingering misconception that women’s health is synonymous with reproductive health.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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There seems to be a misconception among our political leaders that civic engagement is purely intuitive, that people fired up by a speech will somehow find their way to a city council meeting, a ballot initiative, a local organization’s strategy session.—
Adam Met,
Time,
3 June 2025
Noun
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The myth had inspired many works by Old Masters, including several paintings by Titian.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The line between the reality and the myth becomes blurred, and this confusion continues to harm women, especially those who are isolated and silenced.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
8 June 2025
Noun
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As far as superstitions go, this was a serious one.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Perhaps Faust reverting back to his old superstitions helped, too.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
17 May 2025
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Burden Of Proof Unlike many of the other fallacies, the burden of proof fallacy doesn’t serve to conjure up false narratives, nor to ignore or refute the points that have been made.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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These are straw man fallacies, falsely implying that acknowledging and celebrating the full range of backgrounds, identities and family structures kids bring to the classroom will somehow crowd out instruction time.—
Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
30 May 2025
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The government has admitted in court that his deportation was an administrative error.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2025
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The poll surveyed 576 likely voters from May 28 to 30 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 6.1 percentage points.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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From Paper to Protocol Today’s trade infrastructure is a patchwork of legal fictions and trust intermediaries - letters of credit, bills of lading, third-party guarantees - many of which exist solely to simulate trust.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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On his life as a moviegoer So vividly drawn is King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films.—
Jake Coyle,
Twin Cities,
5 June 2025
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The basic essentials of your life – electricity, food and water – must be in place to afford the privilege of propagating or believing untruths.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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The writer’s task is the sculpting of these untruths into a work of art, into a cohesive story that suspends the readers’ belief, gently ushers them into the imaginary and holds them there.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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Although she was never formally diagnosed, E.A. believes Lewes may have experienced bipolar disorder, marked by episodes of extreme paranoia and delusions, which became more frequent as time went on.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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Valerie often allowed her vanity and delusion to stand in her way, but also has a certain purity in her desire for mainstream success; viewers on the show’s wavelength might alternately cringe, laugh and feel deeply for her over the course of just a few minutes.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
5 June 2025
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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