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
Nature’s nuance is all part of the quest for truth.
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Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
When misinformation threatens to drown everything else out, these truths can help cut through the noise, serving as a guiding light that helps ground your everyday eating decisions.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 26 June 2025
And you do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit-seeking environment.
—CBS News, 26 June 2025
The leaders who will thrive in the years ahead are those willing to linger in discomfort long enough to let complexity reveal its deeper truths.
—Melanie Hughes, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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Max G. Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
When misinformation threatens to drown everything else out, these truths can help cut through the noise, serving as a guiding light that helps ground your everyday eating decisions.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 26 June 2025
And you do not get rewarded for telling the hard truths about America in a profit-seeking environment.
—CBS News, 26 June 2025
The leaders who will thrive in the years ahead are those willing to linger in discomfort long enough to let complexity reveal its deeper truths.
—Melanie Hughes, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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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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His accuracy was really impressive Wednesday and Thursday.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
20 June 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 3 Jul. 2025.
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