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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The hard truth: Economic pressure exposes inefficiency that was always there.—
Mark Johnson,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025 -
However, her investigation reveals a much darker truth.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
3 June 2025
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Trump was rewriting reality again Friday afternoon as one of the most flamboyant, destructive bromances in government history petered out in the Oval Office.—
Maureen Dowd,
Mercury News,
4 June 2025
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That signaled bond investors’ willingness to consider whether the decades-long warnings of a looming, but theoretical, US fiscal collapse may be inching closer to reality.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Incorporate both financial metrics (gross margin, inventory turns, cash conversion cycle) and operational indicators (forecast accuracy, perfect order fulfillment, production attainment).—
Luigi Damasceno,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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His first season in Denver finished with a 4-11 record and a notable regression in his accuracy and TD-INT ratio.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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Still, the fact of remembering can sometimes feel more important to Dyer than how events translate.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The fact that gender-equity claims could be brought against schools that unequally distribute revenue among men and women who play sports does not necessarily mean those cases would succeed.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 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 15 Jun. 2025.
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