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Recent Examples of factoid
The perfect, humanizing factoid to draw chuckles from reporters and likes on social media.
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Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
However easy that is to explain away, that factoid remains kind of interesting.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
That factoid is soon made very, very clear; the slide and the ball pit are also red, as is the huge sectional at the center of the family room, the chandelier above, the velvet ropes that partition the area, the dramatically swooping drapes, and the nearby pair of ginormous bean bags.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2025
Interesting factoid #1: The first Social Security payment went to motorman Ernest Ackerman from Cleveland, who retired one day after FDR signed the bill.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
However easy that is to explain away, that factoid remains kind of interesting.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
That factoid is soon made very, very clear; the slide and the ball pit are also red, as is the huge sectional at the center of the family room, the chandelier above, the velvet ropes that partition the area, the dramatically swooping drapes, and the nearby pair of ginormous bean bags.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2025
Interesting factoid #1: The first Social Security payment went to motorman Ernest Ackerman from Cleveland, who retired one day after FDR signed the bill.
—Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
Noun
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Inconsistent Data Integrity Because of the name ‘artificial intelligence,’ there is a common misconception that AI is capable of original thought.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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And there's a (misconception) that these Pop Artists were having fun and being clever and not showing their soul.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Set in a ghostly Himalayan town, the movie is billed as an exploration of myth, memory, and places left behind.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
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The Odyssey, the Oppenheimer director’s epic take on the classic Greek myth, will shoot entirely on Imax film cameras, a first for a commercial feature.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The Fed must jettison its prosperity-causes-inflation superstition and commit, in plain English, to a stable dollar.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Whether driven by personal expression, cultural significance, superstition or legacy, most athletes have meaningful reasons for choosing their jersey numbers.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
7 May 2025
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One such skill is identifying logical fallacies and inconsistencies in arguments, both of which errors are exemplified in Mr. Williams’ article.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
7 May 2025
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That fallacy is now deeply entrenched in the U.S. mindset, thanks to generations of leaders who believed that diplomacy would create a liberal utopia.—
A. Wess Mitchell,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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But turning on error correction restored some of the performance.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2025
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In this fiction, the Crusades were not waged against Moors, but against elves – a race said to devour the flesh of humans, among other atrocities that are neither confirmed nor denied by the end of the story.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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And the contemporary women’s fiction category, where Reid is often listed, ended 2024 with a nearly 30% increase in sales over 2019 numbers, according to analyst Kristen McLean.—
Lucy Feldman,
Time,
15 May 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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Spread it around Twitter where the console wars are still kept alive via delusion, sadness and regressive human thinking.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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However, in addition, the Moon also opposes fuzzy Neptune in your sign, which can create confusion, delusion and deceit.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 May 2025
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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