1
as in truth
agreement with fact or reality
some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation
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2
as in reality
the quality of being actual
although this account of the scheme seems like it must be fiction, its very factuality makes it all the more fascinating
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Noun
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In truth, it was founded in 1931 but definitely has a lot more years on most of the DTC mattress brands of late.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
11 Mar. 2025 -
When markets plunge, most investors forget the fundamental truth that these cycles are inevitable and temporary.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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That is the Disney version, but the reality was more Brothers Grimm.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Anti-Palestinian organizations were spreading false claims about my husband that were simply not based in reality.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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Census and Socioeconomic Data: The accuracy of datasets used for policymaking, including housing, labor, and economic inequality, may be undermined through changes in methodology or funding cuts.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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To combat that evidence, his defense team has repeatedly questioned the use, legality and accuracy of the DNA testing done in each step of the process.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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The downturn in web visits may reflect the fact that the website has not been regularly updated—there have been only a dozen or so press releases posted since the season opened.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Chatter surrounding Hilaria's heritage emerged in December 2020, when social media users alleged that her Spanish roots were fabricated by pointing to the fact that she was born in Boston, Mass., with the birth name Hilary.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Caruth’s determination to cleave simultaneously to the idea both that the traumatic memory is the only historic fact the individual possesses and that this facticity remains incapable of adequate representation is paradoxical bordering on the perverse.—
Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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This new discipline borrowed features from philology and belles lettres—period specialization and close reading, respectively—but abjured their emphasis on facticity and appreciation in favor of a new goal: interpretation.—
Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
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“Factuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factuality. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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