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Recent Examples of factoid
That’s one of many factoids included in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s most recent Urban Mobility Report, which has been released periodically since 1987.
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Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Nov. 2025
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.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Oct. 2025
People love to throw this factoid around.
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Vivian Tu,
CNBC,
29 Aug. 2025
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Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Nov. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
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The biggest misconception about the trade has been thinking George is washed as a player.
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Byrd shared the story behind her longtime misconception while speaking with Jess Rothschild in a bonus episode of Finding Fire Island.
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The piece’s name is also a nod to a Greek myth, in which the 50 daughters of King Danaos—the Danaïdes—were ordered to kill their husbands on their wedding night.
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Reinventing the Batman myth for a new generation of fans, Absolute Batman reimagines the Dark Knight as a working-class hero up against impossible odds on a mission to prove that even in an era of wealth, power and corruption, one good person can change the world.
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Memorable matches, sacrifices, personal style, and superstitions were volleyed back and forth in a lively conversation Thursday night with tennis stars Andre Agassi, Caroline Wozniacki, Genie Bouchard, and James Blake, hosted by Ralph Lauren.
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Towns leaned into the handbag superstition after the Knicks’ historic 29-point comeback to win Game 4, and again after the Knicks won the title in San Antonio.
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Alfred North Whitehead called this the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
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But some surgeons call this a fallacy.
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With Yerry De los Santos also fumbling a bunt in the eighth, the Yanks tallied a season-high four errors on the night.
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Michael Conforto, Alex Bregman and Ian Happ had RBI hits in the sixth, when the Cubs’ runs were unearned thanks to a pair of errors.
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Weir takes readers on an adventure through this science-fiction survival story about a junior high science teacher who wakes up aboard a spaceship with amnesia.
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Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
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But in the popular imagination, untruths persist that should be corrected.
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But there was a third kind of fascistic untruth: the Pointless Lie.
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By chance, Rhaena arrives at the Gullet on dragonback just in time to make the same hubristic mistake as her sister and her cousin, all suffering from the delusion that the war needs them.
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Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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