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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But her unruly secrets reflect the uncomfortable truths that are so often hidden in our own histories.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
27 June 2025 -
Longer term, this could feed the optimization layer with live flight-ops and crew-roster data so that disruption management and maintenance planning draw from a single source of truth.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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MrBeast’s reality game show broke viewership records on Amazon.—
Forbes Video,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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His weekend posts about Iran and Israel avoid reality.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
16 June 2025
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Jones has a lower ceiling, but he's shown more accuracy than Richardson so far.—
Steve Bradshaw,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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If that continues, the quality of our foreign policy conversation will degrade even further, not just in accuracy, but in accountability.—
Nuri Kino,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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And while the internet is upset over the fact that Pedro Pascal doesn't get the girl, the truth of the matter is, Lucy was set up for failure from the jump.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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Perhaps something gets done swiftly by August, but the most important fact to remember is that there is no firm timeline that his camp has declared.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
21 June 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 30 Jun. 2025.
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