as in accuracy
agreement with fact or reality
there is no truth to the rumor that the couple is getting a divorce
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Recent Examples of truth
Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 What truth wants an open road today?
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
Yesterday, not even a spring day in Los Angeles could keep Kaia Gerber from living that truth.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 May 2026
The actor splashed out on the rights to Woodward and Bernstein’s book — getting there before co-star Hoffman — recognizing the potential in a film about journalists methodically pursuing a dangerous but vital truth.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
In truth, the players responded and produced a decent performance against Manchester City.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
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Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026
Yesterday, not even a spring day in Los Angeles could keep Kaia Gerber from living that truth.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 27 May 2026
The actor splashed out on the rights to Woodward and Bernstein’s book — getting there before co-star Hoffman — recognizing the potential in a film about journalists methodically pursuing a dangerous but vital truth.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
In truth, the players responded and produced a decent performance against Manchester City.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
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The depth, accuracy and topspin act as the last push, off the cliff and into the gaping ravine below.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
Noun
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But at a School Board meeting, high school parent June Prakash dogged the use of AI as valuing efficiency over authenticity.—
Kendall Staton The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2026
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More details about the Cavs/The Realest partnership To ensure authenticity, The Realest oversees every collectible item to have patent-pending covert markings and tamper resistant holograms.—
Mark Medina,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
Noun
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There is an emphatic truthfulness to the story and the performances that anchor it, which is both refreshing and innovative.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar. 2026
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Some people thought the character was too much, but Danica managed to make her just that without losing the truthfulness, and the ending wouldn’t have worked without that.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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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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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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