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
The melancholy truth is that things have sunk into a morass of demoralization and low standards, with journalism inhabiting the poverty sector among the disciplines, and this at a time when communications nationally and internationally have reached an apex of urgency and complexity.
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David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In truth, our Universe contains a wide mix of ingredients.
—Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
The unfortunate truth about Kelly's tenure, as Clark alluded to, is that Kelly simply hasn't been able to get the Tigers over the hump thus far during his tenure in Baton Rouge.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Somewhere in the whipsawing nature of this character is a truth about artistic creation, but also about depression.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
In truth, our Universe contains a wide mix of ingredients.
—Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
The unfortunate truth about Kelly's tenure, as Clark alluded to, is that Kelly simply hasn't been able to get the Tigers over the hump thus far during his tenure in Baton Rouge.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Somewhere in the whipsawing nature of this character is a truth about artistic creation, but also about depression.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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To answer those questions, TIME spoke with Oppenheim and Karbler about the movie’s technical accuracy, its depiction of government response in crisis, and the global temperature on nuclear war.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One accomplice in the scheme was a 74-year-old man from Rhineland-Palatinate who produced counterfeit expert reports attesting to the authenticity of the forgeries, investigators say.—
NPR,
NPR,
26 Oct. 2025
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For authenticity, add a product tag on the side of your costume as Fanning did.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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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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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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