Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoids
Noun
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Many cultures have traditions and superstitions about how what happens on New Year’s Eve impacts the year ahead.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
1 Jan. 2026 -
Here are some of the most popular superstitions to embrace for good luck or avoid for bad luck.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Dec. 2025
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While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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She is revered in those regions, and oral tradition keeps her myths alive.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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One year before Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire published their compendium of Greek myths, Cicellis released her second work of fiction, The Way to Colonos, which ruthlessly dramatizes the limits of individual freedom and the agony of facing one’s powerlessness.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
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This could include sharing the results of the aforementioned A/B tests in a blog, conducting an email awareness campaign dispelling common misconceptions about passkeys, or building popups that briefly explain the benefits of passkeys at the login screen.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2026
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In 2025, misconceptions about AI flourished as people struggled to make sense of the rapid development and adoption of the technology.—
Nikita Ostrovsky,
Time,
29 Dec. 2025
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Brigitte and her husband, French President Emmanuel Macron, have long faced such falsehoods, including allegations that she was born under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux — the actual name of her older brother.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
5 Jan. 2026
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Some in the industry are frustrated, saying opponents are spreading falsehoods about data centers — such as polluting water and air — and are difficult to overcome.—
Marc Levy,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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The fictions that result, many so small and meaningless, can be accepted without much trouble.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
26 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Trump is just straight-up doling out untruths – and blaming Biden.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Yet the Administration’s 28-point plan for Ukraine and the NSS should end any illusions that this approach is working.—
Amanda Sloat,
Time,
2 Jan. 2026
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With Saturn conjunct Neptune in your seventh house, illusions fade and truth becomes unavoidable.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
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“Factoids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoids. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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