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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
See All Example Sentences for factoid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
Noun
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An event organizer says those concerns stem from a major misconception about drag as an art form.—
Jack Springgate,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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One of the biggest misconceptions about herbicides is the idea that spraying only affects your own yard.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
2 June 2026
Noun
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Advertisement Part of why this myth persists, Masland says, is that the hardest moments are the most visible ones.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
11 June 2026
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Their saliva causes intense itching and irritation in humans and animals — so much so that the common myth is that chiggers bury into the skin and stay.—
Eva Flowe
June 11,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red is steeped in tradition… and a hearty dose of motherly superstition.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
4 June 2026
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The children also play a vital role in their dad's sporting superstitions on game day.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
Noun
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Alfred North Whitehead called this the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.—
Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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But some surgeons call this a fallacy.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Mexico opened the scoring in the ninth minute when Quiñones capitalized on a defensive error by South Africa and fired a shot down the middle, between the legs of goalkeeper Ronwen Williams.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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As each flaw and error in the early development of vaccines became clear, researchers and practitioners responded, fixing problems as they were identified.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Drawing on generations of Chinatown family lore and silences, See turns China City’s vanished streets and her ancestors’ immigrant gambles into a historical fiction layered with stories of survival and belonging.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Noun
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But in the popular imagination, untruths persist that should be corrected.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
3 June 2026
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But there was a third kind of fascistic untruth: the Pointless Lie.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There’s a seductive delusion to FatFIRE—one that promises the world can be opted out of, if not mastered.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vanity Fair,
8 June 2026
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One neighbor told the local TV station that Gledhill appeared to suffer from delusions.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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