factoids

plural of factoid

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Noun
  • 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.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 26 June 2026
  • Baseball is famous for routines and superstitions.
    Adam Annaccone, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Understanding vicious cycles and logical fallacies.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • While counting the president’s fallacies has become routine, the ideological subservience of his senior-most cabinet members and advisors this term has given the public reason to second-guess statements and data issued by them or their offices.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nseyo notes there are plenty of unsupported myths around what causes UTIs, so stick to these tips.
    Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Effective public speaking is crucial for personal branding and career advancement, a skill anyone can develop by replacing common myths with empowering mindsets.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Attorney Al Watkins, who represented the McCloskeys during the early stages of the controversy, said one of the biggest misconceptions about the case is what triggered the confrontation in the first place.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026
  • One of the misconceptions about work from home or hybrid is that the entire workforce can avail itself with such arrangements.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Yet medical falsehoods on social media do influence health decisions.
    Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2026
  • Such undead falsehoods drive our current peril.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
    Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
  • The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • But in the popular imagination, untruths persist that should be corrected.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
  • Beyond easily demonstrable untruths about Ukraine, what’s unfortunate about Slezkine’s historical analysis is its failure to ponder cause and effect, even at a superficial level.
    John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Presented Out of Competition at the 1967 edition of Venice, Deadly Sweet takes it cue from a brief encounter between a disenchanted man and a girl with no illusions in the wake of the murder of a nightclub owner in London.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 June 2026
  • Perhaps because of this aesthetic of illusions, the earnest state pride evident in some of the pavilions turns out to feel especially delightful.
    Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
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