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
But the cold hard truth of business is that the biggest, most unsung career amplifier and accelerator is the quality of your execution.
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Suzy Welch, CNBC, 8 May 2025
This is Maryland’s moment to shine, to show the world how communities, when armed with truth and transparency, can conquer even the most powerful forces working against us.
—Will Fries, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Only then can there be any hope for real closure, not just for Shireen, but for every journalist and family seeking truth.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
His approach with the kids, who range from middle school to college, is to just tell his truth.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2025
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Suzy Welch, CNBC, 8 May 2025
This is Maryland’s moment to shine, to show the world how communities, when armed with truth and transparency, can conquer even the most powerful forces working against us.
—Will Fries, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Only then can there be any hope for real closure, not just for Shireen, but for every journalist and family seeking truth.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
His approach with the kids, who range from middle school to college, is to just tell his truth.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The author makes no representation and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in this article.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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There’s so much tangible value that AI agents can bring to business leaders and to workers, improving efficiency and accuracy while freeing up humans to focus on what is uniquely human in their work, such as creative thinking, face-to-face engagement with others and ethical decision-making.—
Jim Stratton,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
Noun
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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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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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