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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.
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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
As a factoid, that is perhaps unsurprising considering Welsh’s popularity in the Scottish capital, which is also his hometown.
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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
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There’s a bit of a misconception about what method is.
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Her findings challenge a common misconception that the brain loses its ability to adapt in later life.
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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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The film centers on three women in a remote Bangladeshi village – blind Momi, schoolgirl Hima, and pregnant Laili – who dream of escaping a world shaped by superstition and religious conservatism, with consequences that grow increasingly dire for each of them.
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The earliest historians of midwifery argued that this was a progressive story of the triumph of expertise and science and reason over the superstitions and backward practices of untrained female midwives.
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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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The agency will rep Davis in film, TV, branding, business development, publishing, media rights, voiceover, and non-fiction.
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Her short fiction has appeared in Granta and One Story.
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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 27 Jun. 2026.
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